Using highly disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports in Peru over the 2000 …-2012 period, this paper explores the relationship between imports of intermediate inputs and firm export performance. The paper … shows that greater use, variety, and quality of imported intermediate inputs is significantly correlated with higher exports …

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel … dependence is associated with larger market concentration of imports and with higher tariffs. The effect on the concentration of … imports is found to be more pronounced for exporters of 'point-based' resources, imports of primary and consumption goods than …

imports forces firms to improve the quality of their products. The econometric analysis relies on a rich dataset of Chilean …

allocation of shipments to physical inspections is used to show that reduced inspections significantly increase imports. Import … on imports is virtually independent of changes in clearance time and clearance time uncertainty. Tariff and other tax … that reduced inspections increase evasive behavior, perhaps because most of Albania's imports are tariff-free …