In this paper, we analyze determinants of Korea's imports in the context of the interaction between exports and foreign investments, and investigate the effects of imports on firms' exit and productivity, in order to understand Korea's import structure and distributional influences of imports....

There have been voluminous contributions such as Daudin et al. (2011), Johnson and Noguera (2012), Koopmans et al. (2010), and Trefler and Zhu (2010) in measuring value added trade based on input-output tables as generalizations of the vertical specialization measures following Hummels et al....

This paper analyzes the determinants of different types of imported goods. We develop a model in which final good and intermediate good sectors require imported intermediate inputs for production. Our model shows that all types of imported goods are commonly affected by transportation costs...