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Relationship between international factoring and cross-border trade : a granger causality approach

Marak, Zericho R.; Pillai, Deepa - In: Margin: the journal of applied economic research 15 (2021) 3, pp. 320-337

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Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports

Arezki, Rabah; Fernandes, Ana M.; Merchan, Federico; … - 2021

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...

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Importing Technology

Caselli, Francesco; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2021

We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences on cross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We make three contributions. First, we document strikingly large differences in investment composition. Second, we explain these differences...

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Import Competition and Firms' Internal Networks

Hyun, Jay; Park, Ziho; Smirnyagin, Vladimir - 2021

Using administrative data on U.S. multisector firms, we document a cross-sectoral propagation of the import competition …

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Import Competition and Informal Employment : Empirical Evidence from China

Wang, Feicheng; Liang, Zhe; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2021

China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting …

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Residential Energy Storage : U.S. Manufacturing and Imports Grow Amid Rising Demand

David, Andrew - 2021

The U.S. residential energy storage market grew rapidly during 2017–20, driven by homeowners seeking to increase resiliency, changes in net metering programs, and the financial benefits of installing a system. The residential energy storage system (ESS) market was dominated by Tesla in 2020...

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The Importance of Imports

Jessop, Julian - 2021

economic benefits of free trade come mainly from what countries import, rather than from what they sell overseas.This may seem … counter-intuitive. Many still argue that imports are ‘bad’, that import substitution is ‘good’, and that we should reduce our …

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Distance, Time, and Specialization

Evans, Carolyn L.; Harrigan, James - 2021

Time is money, and distance matters. We model the interaction of these truisms, and show the implications for global specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be produced near the source of final demand, where wages will be higher as a result. In the model,...

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Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms

Hanson, Gordon H.; Mataloni, Raymond J.; Slaughter, … - 2021

In recent decades, growth of overall world trade has been driven in large part by the rapid growth of trade in intermediate inputs. Much of this input trade involves multinational firms locating input processing in their foreign affiliates, thereby creating global vertical production networks....

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On the Growth Effects of Import Competition

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2021

simple model is used to show that import competition may stimulate growth by reducing the market power of domestic innovators …. Specifically, import competition forces domestic innovators to chose between either quickening their pace of innovation or being … displaced by foreign innovators. The pro-growth effect of import competition is shown to be welfare-increasing. The paper …

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