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How does export liberalization affect firm location choice and the spatial concentration of economic activity? We … address these questions using the geo-coordinates of Chinese manufacturing firms and find that export widens inter-city and … by the extensive margin. Third, the above effects are not exclusive to industries directly exposed to export shocks but …
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This paper analyzes markup responses of Danish firms to Chinese imports. Besides negative markup responses due to competitive pressure, we present some evidence for marginal cost savings related to Chinese intermediate goods imports which tend to raise firm-level markups.
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This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...
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We investigate the extent to which the effect of the 2018/2019 US import tariff hikes on US (post-tariff) import prices … Chinese exporters react to an USD appreciation by markedly lowering their US dollar-denominated export prices. This holds in …
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In this paper we provide evidence on the existence of short-run trade diversion effects as a consequence of tariff shocks. We exploit sudden policy changes in the context of the trade dispute between the US and China. Based on a data set covering monthly product-level information on US imports...
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survey data with retrospective information on parental employment, we study the causal effect of increased Chinese import …
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Real exports are commonly specified as depending on an indicator of price competitiveness and on a measure of foreign activity. This study empirically investigates the suitability of alternative competitiveness indicators in explaining real exports for a broad group of advanced economies. To...
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This paper analyzes export performance in Brazil, discussing the roles played by export diversification, productivity … enhancements, policy, and natural resource endowments. First, we provide a brief account of Brazil’s recent export performance and … sector export patterns vis-à-vis the rest of the world in an attempt to grasp a broad picture of comparative export behavior …
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in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …
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financial crime regulation - to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level export data from … borrowers start to export less. This trade decline occurs on both the extensive and intensive margins and firms do not …-developed countries to export to richer parts of the world. …
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