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trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity … multilateral resistance terms with which to capture the comparative static effects of changes in trade costs. For isolated … bilateral changes in trade frictions, multilateral resistance effects are small for most countries. However, if all countries …
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bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per …
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In many countries, a sizable share of international trade is carried out by intermediaries. While large firms tend to … dynamic trade model with both direct and indirect exporting modes and customer accumulation. The model is calibrated to match … trade in Vietnam are generated by indirect exporters. Finally, I demonstrate that a dynamic model that excludes the indirect …
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Literature on whether government spending crowds out or crowds in the private sector is large, but still without an unambiguous conclusion. Using firm-level data from Ukraine, this paper provides a granular empirical investigation to disentangle the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on...
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This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. Our model shows that the elasticity of demand perceived by exporters decreases with a real depreciation and with quality, leading to more...
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economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from …
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could undermine LAC's competitive advantage in some export markets. In this context, reduction of trade barriers and further …
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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 … accounting for granular commodity production and trade linkages leads to underestimation of the output losses associated with …
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This paper studies the reasons behind the export performance of different Mexican states from 1994 to 2002. Mexican exports are divided into two components: (1) foreign market potential; and (2) supply capacity. Results suggest that states that experience an increase in supply capacity are, in...
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of exporters) and intensive (volume of exports) margins of international trade. The article's main contribution is its …. It also presents new information on firm behavior under financial constraints. The paper develops a trade model with … firms' export volumes once they become exporters. An empirical analysis is developed on the basis of an international trade …
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