Die Analyse der Außenhandelsaktivität von Unternehmen auf Basis verknüpfter Daten sätze bietet eine Reihe neuer Erkenntnismöglichkeiten für Wissenschaft und Politik. Der Artikel beleuchtet verschiedene Verknüpfungs und Analysemöglichkeiten des neuen Außenhandelsdatensatzes AFiDPanel...

In foreign trade statistics, the Federal Statistical Office compiles data on Germany's trade in goods with other countries from the export and import declarations submitted by businesses that are required to report data. Complex edit checks are employed to detect and correct erroneous data to...

This paper reassesses and revisits the Sectoral Linder Hypothesis due to Hallak (2010), according to which similar tastes for quality lead to more intensive trade between similar countries. First, it will be shown that allowing for strictly non-homothetic preferences reduces confoundedness and...

In foreign trade statistics, the Federal Statistical Office compiles data on Germany's trade in goods with other countries from the export and import declarations submitted by businesses that are required to report data. Complex edit checks are employed to detect and correct erroneous data to...

This paper reassesses and revisits the Sectoral Linder Hypothesis due to Hallak (2010), according to which similar tastes for quality lead to more intensive trade between similar countries. First, it will be shown that allowing for strictly non-homothetic preferences reduces confoundedness and...

This study integrates development aid into a theoretically founded structural gravity model that considers primary and secondary effects of aid as an income transfer and as a bilateral trade cost determinant. We identify the parameters of our model using a two-stage approach that includes a...

Die Verknüpfung von Einzeldaten aus Außenhandels- und Unternehmensstatistiken bietet attraktive Analysemöglichkeiten für Wissenschaft und Politik. Eine Verknüpfung ist jedoch nicht immer ohne Weiteres sinnvoll möglich. Dieser Artikel beschreibt neue Methoden, die möglichst flexible...

This paper presents a theoretical gravity model of trade in which foreign aid is considered as a transfer instead of being part of the trade cost, as it has been previously done in the related literature. We argue that the usual specification leads to invalid out-of-sample predictions, biased...