We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a …

This book is a synthesis of the results and implications from a series of product-specific import and export process …

empirical literature. This is more so in many of the emerging economies that are pursuing export-led growth strategy and led to …. Further, it is also found that imports and the import tariffs playing a major role in boosting exports growth in India, thus … indicating `import-led exports growth' mechanism. Subsequently, the paper examines the relationship between exports, imports …

–MRA) on the performance of Korean exporters and importers. The effect of the import–export companies' characteristics, such as … was analyzed in the AEO–MRA effect on logistics performance. Thus, 172 valid samples were obtained from import–export …

. Thus, as an export-oriented country, close examination of the Georgian export performance is of great importance. Besides … the decomposition of general export trends for the period of 2008-2017, this paper applies Balassa index of revealed … comparative advantage (RCA) to identify the key export sectors with comparative advantage and correspondingly with higher growth …

products or processes induced by its import and export links with foreign markets. By using microdata for a large sample of … results suggest that firms learn primarily from import links, which enables them to innovate products and processes and to … dress up for starting to export. In a sequence, exporting may enable firms to introduce further innovations. These positive …

countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Inland transport costs and time delays are a much larger share of total export costs and …. An analysis of unit costs and costs of time for land transport of particular export commodities reveals a pattern of high … uncertainty, infrastructure quality, and other features of logistics systems and export markets are highly non-linear, and can be …

and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer … international trade and the importance of foreign ownership for firms’ export and import decisions …

. Services firms are more likely to import than to export. Their prevalent type of trade is trade in goods. The complexity of …