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This note uses the newly available Exporter and Importer Dynamics Database for Germany to investigate the links between … trade dynamics and trade costs. It shows results for the dynamics of Germany’s goods trade as a whole, and for trade with … and characteristics of these countries (distance to Germany, difficulty of foreign trade, and market size) on the other …
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This article reviews several hypotheses that aim at explaining the development of German merchandise exports. Based on cointegration estimation techniques, we examine different determinants for their ability to explain German exports during the period 1992-2016. The estimation results indicate...
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Because many developing countries fail to report trade statistics to the United Nations, there has been an interest in using partner-country data to fill these information gaps. The author used partner-country statistics for 30 developing countries to estimate actual (concealed) trade data and...
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An astonishing 33% of all firm-product-destination export spells in Danish data turn out to be isolated single-month one-off export events (observed once in a 49 month window). On average, for an export-active firm, such one-off exports account for 17% of total foreign sales. These patterns...
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Following closely the analytical approach adopted by Head and Mayer (2004) and Novy (2010), this paper derives a micro-founded bilateral trade cost measure for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a function of observable domestic and inter-national trade data. The derived measure of trade cost by Novy...
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This paper investigates the problem of identifying the strength of the incoming of news in the financial market. With the support of a microstructure model we are able to derive a simple formula that, based only on trade data, estimates the likelihood of having news for any given tradable asset...
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This paper finds that the estimates of Armington elasticities (the elasticity of substitution between groups of products identified by country of origin) obtained from multilateral trade data can differ from those obtained from bilateral trade data. In particular, the former tends to be higher...
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