processes induced by its import and export links with foreign markets. By using microdata for a large sample of Spanish firms … 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 learning effects …

This study investigates the effect of trade liberalization on export growth, import growth, the trade balance and the … account of the balance of payments. The higher import growth contrasts with the more modest export growth following trade … assesses the marginal relation between capital flows (e.g., aid flows) and import growth, and the trade balance and the current …

interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … source country deviates from the reported import value in the destination country. Analyzing 4-digit product level data for …

export/import prices and numerous studies show that the effect of currency fluctuations decreases within the distribution …

that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and nontraders … the extensive margin of imports, but not of exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import …