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Trade and Foreign Direct Investment with Central and Eastern Europe: Its Impact on Spain

Gual, Jordi; Martín, Carmela - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Agreements are progressively implemented, is projected to have a significant impact on trade flows with Spain, as exports and … probably respond to the relative factor endowments underlying current trade patterns. Spain is likely to increase its exports … take place.The evolution of trade flows will, of course, be contingent upon developments in FDI. Most FDI in Spain in …

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Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Atkin, David; Khandelwal, Amit; Osman, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We conduct a randomized control trial that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance. Treatment firms report 15-25 percent higher profits and...

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Time to ship during financial crises

Berman, Nicolas; de Sousa, José; Martin, Philippe; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We show that the negative impact of financial crises on trade is magnified for destinations with longer time-to-ship. A simple model where exporters react to an increase in the probability of default of importers by increasing their export price and decreasing their export volumes to...

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Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows

Antràs, Pol; Chor, Davin; Fally, Thibault; Hillberry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We propose two distinct approaches to the measurement of industry upstreamness (or average distance from final use) and show that they yield an equivalent measure. Furthermore, we provide two additional interpretations of this measure, one of them related to the concept of forward linkages in...

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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Melitz, Marc J; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...

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Wholesalers and Retailers in US Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

International trade models typically assume that producers in one country trade directly with final consumers in another. In the real world, of course, trade can involve long chains of potentially independent actors who move goods through wholesale and retail distribution networks. These...

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Fuzzy Transition and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Bulgaria, 1991-4

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper investigates the relationship between firm restructuring and international competition in Bulgaria during 1991–4. Two hypotheses are tested. First, firms in industries that are subject to significant international competition demonstrate greater increases in efficiency over time...

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Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

Glick, Reuven; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all...

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Exports and Information Spillovers

Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Exporters’ performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may base their future transaction decisions upon the information revealed by exporters’ past performance in other countries. Similarly, exporters acquire valuable information on...

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Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of 2008-2009

Gopinath, Gita; Itskhoki, Oleg; Neiman, Brent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We document the behavior of trade prices during the Great Trade Collapse of 2008-2009 using transaction-level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. First, we find that differentiated manufactures exhibited marked stability in their trade prices during the large decline in their trade...

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