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Services versus goods trade : are they the same?

Ariu, Andrea - 2012

In this paper, we present for the first time a qualitative and quantitative comparison between trade in services and trade in goods at firm level for the same country. We focus first on static features of trade such as participation rates, firms' characteristics, heterogeneity, concentration and...

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The micro-economics of export supply : firm-level evidence from Mexico

Cebreros, Alfonso - 2019

This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...

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Determinants of Exports in ‎SAARC Countries : ‎An Empirical ‎Evaluation

wani, Nassir - 2022

Given the importance of international trade and export performance in economic growth, this study attempts to examine the determinants of exports in SAARC Countries, using a pooled time-series and cross-section data over the period 2005-2018. The methodology employed is the export demand model...

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Geography, non-homotheticity, and industrialization : a quantitative analysis

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - 2012

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or agriculture is driven by comparative advantage and non-homothetic preferences. Countries are integrated through trade but trade is not costless and geographic position matters....

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Learning and the value of trade relationships

Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2017

This paper quantifies the value of importer-exporter relationships. We show that almost 80 percent of U.S. imports take place in pre-existing relationships, with sizable heterogeneity across countries, and show that traded quantities and survival increase as relationships age. We develop a...

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Fragmentation in Global Trade : Accounting for Commodities

Bolhuis, Marijn; Chen, Jiaqian; Kett, Benjamin - 2023

We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade fragmentation scenarios in a new multi-country, multi-sector,...

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Exchange rate uncertainty and trade growth : a comparison of linear and nonlinear (forecasting) models

Herwartz, Helmut (contributor); Weber, Henning (contributor) - 2007

A huge body of empirical and theoretical literature has emerged on the relationship between foreign exchange (FX) uncertainty and international trade. Empirical findings about the impact of FX uncertainty on trade figures are at best weak and often ambiguous with respect to its direction. Almost...

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The trade-off between foreign direct investments and exports : the role of multiple dimensions of distance

Lankhuizen, Maureen; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, … - 2009

Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between …

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Panel Data Gravity Models of International Trade

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014

One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply … structure of the data. This chapter is concerned with a host of issues that arise with the estimation of such models, respecting … their panel econometric generic structure. The issues covered range from the estimation of double-indexed versus higher …

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Terror externalities and trade : an empirical analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Doucouliagos, Chris; Pham, Cong S. - 2019

We report robust evidence of adverse cross-border externalities from terrorism on trade for over 160 countries from 1976 to 2014. Terrorism in one country spills over to reduce trade in neighboring nations. These externalities arise from higher trade costs due to trade delays and macroeconomic...

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