to establish a causal link between the supply of private credit insurance and exports. I overcome endogeneity issues by … - as an instrument for insured exports. Subsequently, applying the method of instrumental variables and a variety of trade … models, I consistently find a positive and statistically significant effect of private credit insurance on exports. The …

variation in the skewness of exports across countries and sectors. …

use relationship-specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries using standardized inputs. …

relationship-specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries using standardized inputs. …

differently. Our baseline calibration suggests that a 50 % reduction in imports of FCIs from China and other countries with …

affect exports and imports and how domestic labour value added shapes this relationship. We find that higher labour taxes … reduce exports but that the effect depends to a large extent on the share of domestic labour value added, which differs by … industries, countries and time periods. Imports do not seem to be affected. This implies that changes in labour taxes will not …

imports, while their effect on exports is likely to depend on how much domestic labour contributes to total value added. If … that the effect of corporate tax on exports and imports depends on the stock of FDI. Corporate taxes are unlikely to affect … have a major impact on exports. This is an important finding, because it challenges the established view in the literature …

. Interestingly, Estonia stands apart from other post-socialist countries in terms of digital services exports, being among smaller … digital services differ from others - being smaller, more focused on exports and more often controlled by non-residents. The …

added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade … the distributions of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) in terms of gross exports and value added for 40 countries. A … Systematic comparison of these distributions shows that the distributions of RCA calculated with gross exports and value added …