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Despite recent efforts toward collecting evidence of vertical specialization for developed economies, scarce work has been dedicated to developing economies and to Argentina, in particular. The key contribution of this paper is to provide comparable estimates of vertical specialization as...
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The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period. The data show that trade costs are strongly declining in per capita income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs...
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special emphasis on the extensive margin of trade, encompassing new exporting firms, new products, and new export markets, as … small firms to enter exporting activities or to grow their exports, appear to be important sources of export growth. In fact …, the smallest exporting firms experienced the fastest growth in their export values. Some of these results are compared …
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What is the impact of terrorism on trade through higher security at the borders? The authors set up a theory which shows that the impact goes not only from terrorism to trade. Higher trade with a partner might, in turn, increase the probability of terrorism acts and make security measures more...
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Services trade constitute roughly one-third of trade on a value added basis, and much of this is concentrated in margin services (transport, logistics) linked to trade in goods. However, producer services are also part of the value added contained in traded goods. This is especially true in high...
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. Export vulnerability depends first on the overall level of export exposure, measured as the share of exports in gross … gross domestic product using a gravity model of trade. Furthermore, export vulnerability is computed separately for … composition of their export basket. Although the results suggest differences in elasticity estimates across regions as well as …
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Do better international logistics reduce trade costs, raising a developing country's exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effect depends on the country's size. The authors apply a gravity model that accounts for firm heterogeneity and multilateral resistance to a comprehensive new...
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study investigates a possible reason that prevents convergence of countries in export performance. It shows that regulatory … quality, customs efficiency, quality of infrastructure, and access to finance among other factors increase export performance … convergence in export volumes with countries that have more liberal trade policies …
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investment inflows and weaknesses in the investment climate, its subsequent export performance has come as a surprise. Industrial … have been one of the levers of export upgrading and expansion. The dominance of joint ventures as a mode of entry of … future sustainability of export performance …
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exporting firms make pricing decisions has not received significant attention in the trade literature, which is more focused on … factors that determine export flows. The results of the paper show that the free on board price of Tanzanian exports is …
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