Wagner, Joachim - 2016 - This version: May 17, 2016
. Using China and the USA as control groups it is found that the Fukushima trade cost shock reduced the average number of … of imports from Japan due to the Fukushima disaster in 2011 lead to an increase in the lumpiness of imports from Japan … import transactions per year at the firm-good level and, therefore, increased the degree of lumpiness of imports from Japan. …
