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This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. The authors use a rich and recent dataset for Turkish manufacturing firms for the...
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that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and non … exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import side. Similar outcomes are obtained for the …
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simultaneously import intermediate inputs and export (vertically specialized firms à la Hummels et al., The nature and growth of …The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the probability of ceasing to export is lower for firms that … sourcing inputs from abroad on export exit is significantly different for large and small firms, playing a role in continuing …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate empirically the presence of an equilibrium relationship between the logarithms of Indian exports and imports between 1949/50 and 2004/2005, using the unit-root, cointegration approach. To ascertain robustness, exports and imports measured in current...
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differentiation. As a result, while firms in import-competing industries cut capital expenditures and employment, R&D-intensive firms …
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The recent U.S. trade policy shift has reignited interest about the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs. In this … paper, we examine the impacts of import tariff shocks on U.S. macroeconomic performance using quarterly data from 1989 …
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This paper explores the effects of offshoring, technology and Chinese import competition on labor market polarization … we also find some tentative evidence that Chinese import competition contributed as well. In other private industries … find that Chinese import competition contributed to the decline of employment in the less polarized manufacturing …
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We estimate the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on CES import price indices, focusing on the implications of … U.K. import price indices by raising the prices of existing products and by reducing product variety from the E.U. We … find evidence that the risk of higher import protection from the 2016 referendum increased current import price indices by …
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We use the dynamics of U.S. imports across goods in the period around the U.S.-China trade war with a model of exporter dynamics to estimate the dynamic path of the probability of transiting between Normal Trade Relations and a trade war state. We find (i) there was no increase in the likelihood...
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The paper estimates the long-run elasticities of import demand in Jordan over the period 1980-2004. The Engle …-Granger test of co-integration, fails to find favor of a long-run relationship among variables associated with an import demand … affect import demand significantly. Interestingly, the findings have implications explaining Jordanian import demand, in the …
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