or not EU imports from the rest of the world also are short-lived. Second, since there is at this point no clear commonly … rich data set of detailed imports to the EU15 countries from 140 exporters, covering the time period 1962-2006. Using these … data, we begin by conducting a thorough descriptive analysis of the duration of EU imports. Thereafter, we perform a …

to individual EU15 countries from 140 non-EU exporters, covering the period 1962-2006. We find that short duration is a …