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German firms in international trade : evidence from recent microdata

Fauth, Matthias; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2023

information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …

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Import processing and trade costs

Carballo, Jeronimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021

measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to … buffer processing shocks. Based on this theory, we employ detailed data on import processing dates, instrumental variables …, and firm-product-origin level import data to estimate import processing costs. Evaluated at the median, import processing …

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Cultural integration and export variety overlap across countries

Egger, Peter; Lassman, Andrea - 2014

This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...

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Quality and the great trade collapse

Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2015

We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...

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Isolating the network effect of immigrants on trade

Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - 2012

those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …

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The collapse speed of China's exports in the 2008-2009 financial crisis

Jing, Ran - 2011

This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP growth rates of importing countries play an important...

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How resilient was trade to Covid-19?

Bas, Maria; Fernandes, Ana; Paunov, Caroline - 2022

We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...

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Wage structure effects of international trade : evidence from a small open economy

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011

both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …

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Distance, globalization, and international trade

Borchert, Ingo; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016

For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the effects of proximity and regional trade agreements...

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Gravity without apology : the science of elasticities, distance, and trade

Carrère, Céline; Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter - 2020

Gravity as both fact and theory is one of the great success stories of recent research on international trade, and has featured prominently in the policy debate over Brexit. We first review the facts, noting the overwhelming evidence that trade tends to fall with distance. We then introduce some...

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