exports, but in the mid-term perspective it discourages companies from entering export markets and therefore corresponds to … smaller export volumes. Tariffs on intermediate inputs reduce the competitiveness of companies on foreign markets and reduce … the probability of exports both in the short and in the medium term. At the same time the Russian import tariff cannot be …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

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 …

robot adoption on the firm level export performance consists on combining propensity score matching (PSM) and difference in … differences (DID) techniques. The results show that firms that start to use robots experience a sharp increase in their export … probability, export sales and share of exports in total output and this result is robust to a wide array of checks. Robot adoption …

-movement of export and import related exchange rates. I find that operational hedging requires firms to intentionally choose … export and import regions with comoving currencies. Analyzing the locational choice of firms confirms that the co-movement of … move together. Appreciations of the domestic currency, raising foreign currency export prices, then also reduce marginal …

This paper investigates the determinants of export behavior among Indian manufacturing firms, focusing in particular on …&D, positively affects both firms' probability to export and firms' export volumes. We also find that imported intermediate inputs …, incorporating foreign technology, play an important role in expanding export activities of firms. On the other hand, we find that …