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...

“World Trade Statistical Review” looks into the latest trends in global trade, with in-depth analysis of what is being traded and who the key players are. Analytical chapters are complemented by over 65 tables providing a detailed breakdown of the goods and services being traded and the...

Exporters differ markedly in export-market performance. We document that this heterogeneity is not strongly reflected in workforce education or occupations but closely relates to the presence of a few workers with prior export experience. We employ a novel identification strategy to isolate how...

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...

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...

I develop a model of firm-to-firm search and matching to show that the impact of falling trade costs on firm sourcing decisions and consumer welfare depends on the relative size of search externalities in domestic and international markets. These externalities can be positive if firms share...

“World Trade Statistical Review” looks into the latest trends in global trade, with in-depth analysis of what is being traded and who the key players are. Analytical chapters are complemented by over 60 tables providing a detailed breakdown of the goods and services being traded and the...

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...

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...

We investigate the degree of “Exports of Goods and Services” for 27 European Countries in the period 2010-2019 with an equation of 48 variables. Data are estimated with Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects, Pooled OLS and WLS. We found that the “Exports of Goods...

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...

This paper summarizes a forthcoming book that describes issues and recent innovations in the measurement of international transactions. A number of distinguished authors assess data measuring trade in merchandise, services, and foreign-direct investment claims. Others assess international prices...

The performance of the Chinese economy has been remarkable since the country began reforming and liberalizing its economy in the late 1970s. The Chinese experience can provide critical social and economic development lessons to other developing countries that are still suffering from high rates...

This paper conducts an empirical investigation of the relationship between financial development and merchandise trade in Nigeria. Our study focused on the effects of financial development on the components of merchandise trade: exports and imports. While theory predicts that well-developed...

Relying on international input-output tables, the analysis of trade flows in value-added terms has become popular in the past decade. Decomposing gross exports in different value-added terms not only allows to remove the double counting of intermediate inputs but also provides useful insights on...

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the source country deviates from the reported import value...

Several factor-based models are estimated to investigate the role of country-specific trade and survey data in forecasting euro area manufacturing production. Following Boivin and Ng (2006), the emphasis is put on the role of dataset selection on the empirical performance of factor models....

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...

This paper describes data on U.S. exports from 1972-1994, classified according to the Schedule B' system, Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC, Revisions 2 and 3), and Standard Industrial Classification (SIC, 1972 basis), along with various concordances. All...

We document a set of bilateral trade data by commodity for 1962-2000, which is available from www.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data are organized by the 4-digit Standard International...

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...

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...

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...

This article reviews several hypotheses that aim at explaining the development of German merchandise exports. Based on cointegration estimation techniques, we examine different determinants for their ability to explain German exports during the period 1992-2016. The estimation results indicate...

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...