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In this paper, we establish the importance of experience in international trade for reducing trade costs and facilitating bilateral trade. Within an augmented gravity framework, we find that an additional year of experience at the country-pair level reduces trade costs by 2.0% and increases...
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El documento presenta la estimación mensual de los índices encadenados de precios y cantidades del comercio exterior colombiano con base en las estadísticas de aduanas. La metodología propuesta busca afrontar los problemas de agregación y volatilidad propios de la fuente de información...
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This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...
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Gravity models have been widely used to describe bilateral trade in goods. Portes and Rey [Portes, R., Rey, H., 2005. The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows. Journal of International Economics, 65(2), 269–296.] applied this framework to cross-border equity flows and found that distance,...
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Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders compare to domestic border barriers? We investigate international and domestic border barriers in a unified framework. We consider a data set of exports from individual U.S....
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This paper aims to understand the pathways by which exporters become entities that sell multiple goods to multiple customers. To understand firms' export strategies, we analyse new trade flows - new seller-buyer-product combinations - of individual exporters. Our first finding highlights that...
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As Latin America and the Caribbeans "Great Liberalization" reaches its 30th anniversary, we revisit the trade and growth debate by updating and expanding Estevadeordal and Taylors 2013 paper. To better understand the regions heterogeneity of policies and outcomes, we extend this analysis to...
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Resumen: Durante el periodo 2001-2010, el departamento de Antioquia, Colombia, duplicó el crecimiento de sus exportaciones. Este comportamiento estuvo influenciado por la estrategia de convertir al sector externo en un motor fundamental para el desarrollo regional, mediante una mayor oferta de...
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Los programas de la liberalización económica tienen muchas características comunes en todo el mundo, pero no tienen necesariamente las mismas consecuencias. Las diferencias en sus efectos reflejan las diferencias en los países mismos junto con factores accidentales de sincronización y otros...
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Se estima la elasticidad de las exportaciones y de las importaciones al crédito otorgado por la banca comercial usando información cruzada a nivel de firma en Colombia. Replicando la metodología empírica de Paravisini et. al (2011), se encontró que una reducción del crédito en 10% reduce...
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