Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching...

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 describes data on U.S. imports from 1972-1994, classified according to the Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Annotated (TSUSA), Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC, Revisions 2 and 3), and Standard Industrial Classification (SIC, 1972 basis), along with...

This study empirically examined the effect of foreign trade and external reserves in Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to; examine the impact of oil import, non-oil import, oil export, non-oil export and exchange rate on external reserves in Nigeria. Time series data from 1980 to 2019...

This paper applies the nationality-adjusted net sales and value added framework proposed in Baldwin and Kimura (1996) to Japan. Despite possibly large estimation errors due to statistical deficiencies, the framework is very useful for analyzing the relationship of the Japanese economy to the...

Trade Profiles 2021 provides a series of key indicators on trade in goods and services for 197 economies. For merchandise trade, major exports and imports are listed for both agricultural and non-agricultural products as well as major origins and destinations for total merchandise trade. For...

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 describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the year 2001, disaggregated by Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), and the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) categories. In...

This paper describes two databases dealing with world bilateral trade flows: the World Trade Database (WTDB) assembled by Statistics Canada, which contains bilateral trade flows for all countries over 1970-1992, classified according to the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 2...

The article presents the results of the analysis of mirror statistics of Russian foreign trade carried out by methods of predicative analytics. A comparative analysis of the exponential smoothing models and ARIMA time series was carried out on the example of two product groups and four countries...

The main goal of the research is to consider and compare the importance of fruits and vegetables in external trade in goods of the Republic of Serbia. According to the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), "Vegetables and Fruit" is a division that is dominant in Serbian exports of...

Die neue Verordnung für Unternehmensstatistiken (EU) 2019/2152 fasst auf europäischer Ebene alle rechtlichen Vorgaben für die Unternehmensstatistiken zusammen. Mit Ausnahme der Bestimmungen für die Außenhandelsstatistiken wird sie ab dem 1. Januar 2021 in den Mitgliedstaaten der...

The knowledge-based and data-driven economy represents a new stage in the evolution of the economy, with transformative impacts on how goods and services are developed, produced, traded across borders, distributed, and consumed. Data is the essential capital of this new economic age as it...

Die neue Verordnung für Unternehmensstatistiken (EU) 2019/2152 fasst auf europäischer Ebene alle rechtlichen Vorgaben für die Unternehmensstatistiken zusammen. Mit Ausnahme der Bestimmungen für die Außenhandelsstatistiken wird sie ab dem 1. Januar 2021 in den Mitgliedstaaten der...

The import and export price indices of an economy are usually compiled by some Laspeyres type index. It is well known that such an index formula is prone to substitution bias. Therefore, also the terms of trade (ratio of export and import price index) are likely to be distorted. The underlying...

Global Value Chains have proliferated economic policy debates. Yet a key concept – trade in value added – is likely mismeasured because of sectoral aggregation bias stemming from reliance on input- output tables. This paper uses comprehensive firm-level data on both domestic and...

Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching that...

This paper studies the implications of imperfect competition in firm-to-firm trade. Using a dataset on all transactions between Belgian firms, we find that firms charge higher markups if they have higher input shares among their buyers. We interpret this as firms competing as oligopolies to...

This paper studies the implications of imperfect competition in firm-to-firm trade. Exploiting data on the universe of sales relationships between Belgian firms, we document that firms' markups increase in the average input shares among their buyers. Given this fact, we develop a model where...