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Trade Crisis? What Trade Crisis? [PDF]
We investigate the 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian exports and imports mostly fell because of smaller quantities sold and unit prices charged rather than fewer firms, trading partners, and products being involved in trade.
Behrens, K, Corcos, G, Mion, G
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Trade booms, trade busts, and trade costs [PDF]
What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We employ a micro-founded measure of trade frictions consistent with leading trade theories to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of bilateral trade flows for 130 country pairs across the Americas,
David S. Jacks +2 more
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Trade flows and trade disputes [PDF]
This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the trade that countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and prices for those goods that ...
Bown, Chad P., Reynolds, Kara M.
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Trade Wars and Trade Talks [PDF]
When governments meet in the international arena, their actions reflect the political situations at home. Previous studies of trade relations have focused on governments that are immune from political pressures and that act as benevolent servants of the public interest.
Grossman, Gene M., Helpman, Elhanan
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Trade Costs and Trade Composition [PDF]
In this paper, we investigate whether countries' trade costs act like other national endowments by affecting the composition of countries' exports. Using an econometric approach that controls for endogeneity by accounting for potentially relevant omitted variables, we find strong evidence for a sample of 37 industrialized and transition countries that ...
Danny McGowan, Chris Milner
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Trade Theory and Trade Facts [PDF]
This paper quantitatively tests the "new trade theory" based on product differen-tiation, increasing returns, and imperfect competition. We employ a standard model, which allows both changes in the distribution of income among industrialized coun-tries, emphasized by Helpman and Krugman (1985), and nonhomothetic preferences, emphasized by Markusen ...
Raphael Bergoeing, Timothy J. Kehoe
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Antecedents of capital structure and firm performance: evidence from G-7 countries [PDF]
Purpose – The main goal of this study is to analyze how monetary debt effects firm behavior of 167 registered manufacturing companies in G-7 countries.
Muhammad Riaz +2 more
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Trade Networks and Colonial Trade Spillovers [PDF]
AbstractThis paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the formation of international trade networks. Established trade relations may open the gate to new trade opportunities, as they allow meeting new trade partners over time. We test this prediction and its implications for aggregate trade patterns by using the experience of ancient trade ...
Antoine Berthou, Hélène Ehrhart
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Estimating Trade Flows: Trading Partners and Trading Volumes* [PDF]
We develop a simple model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that is consistent with a number of stylized features of the data. In particular, the model predicts positive as well as zero trade flows across pairs of countries, and it allows the number of exporting firms to vary across destination countries.
Rubinstein, Yona +2 more
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The purpose of the study was to identify the relationship between nutritional behavior of the students with training description and the awareness level of the students about the principles of healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition.
E. V. Izvekova +5 more
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