-2011, we empirically establish that exogenous shocks to export demand and import competition both generate large aggregate … firms in the presence of distortions: (i) Both export and import expansion increase average firm productivity, but the … former also shifts activity towards more productive firms, while the latter acts in reverse; (ii) Both export and import …

direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export and import data. Although the issue is still far from …

This paper presents new estimates of export and import equations for Argentina, using a broader set of variables than …

trade flows. Econometric estimates of export and import equations provide evidence that trade flows have indeed become …

by country and commodity, the present study shows that the increase in net food import costs are likely to be smaller …

elasticity of imports is much greater than that in the long run, suggesting that import substitution may have been an important … factor over the sample period. The forecasting ability of a conventional partial adjustment import function is then compared …