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Bastos, Paulo - 2014

detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export …

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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade : A Pilot Study

Bate, Roger - 2014

Experts claim that some Indian drug manufacturers cut corners and make substandard drugs for markets with non-existent, under-developed or emerging regulatory oversight, notably Africa. This paper assesses the quality of 1470 antibiotic and tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in...

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Export Prices Across Firms and Destinations

Manova, Kalina - 2009

This paper establishes six stylized facts about firms' export prices using detailed customs data on the universe of Chinese trade flows. First, across firms selling a given product, exporters that charge higher prices earn greater revenues in each destination, have bigger worldwide sales, and...

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Quality competition versus price competition goods : An empirical classification

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2008

(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find …

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Financial Development and the Choice of Trade Partners

Chan, Man Lung - 2013

What determines the choice of countries' trade partners? We show theoretically and empirically that financial market imperfections affect the number and identity of exporters' destinations. Bigger economies with lower trade costs are more attractive markets because they offer higher export...

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Two-Sided Search in International Markets

Eaton, Jonathan; Jinkins, David; Tybout, James R.; Xu, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a dynamic model of international business-to-business transactions in which sellers and buyers search for each other, with the probability of a match depending on both individual and aggregate search effort. Fit to customs records on U.S. apparel imports, the model captures key...

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How Firms Export : Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions

Manova, Kalina - 2012

The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade -...

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The Connection between Imported Intermediate Inputs and Exports : Evidence from Chinese Firms

Feng, Ling - 2012

We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry as instruments. Our regression results show that...

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Price and Quality Dispersion in an Offshoring Market : Evidence from Semiconductor Production Services

Byrne, David - 2013

This paper studies price and quality differences across international intermediate input suppliers. We develop price … (frictional) price dispersion across suppliers. Using uniquely detailed transaction- level data from the semiconductor industry …, we document large average price differences across suppliers for observationally identical products, and find that price …

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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice - 2008

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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