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Trade Crisis? What Trade Crisis? [PDF]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013 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 Theory and Trade Facts [PDF]
, 2001 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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Estimating Trade Flows: Trading Partners and Trading Volumes [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008 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.
E. Helpman +2 more
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Trade booms, trade busts, and trade costs [PDF]
Journal of International Economics, 2009 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]
The Review of International Organizations, 2014 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]
Journal of Political Economy, 1995 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]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 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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Speed/Accuracy Trade-Offs for Modern Convolutional Object Detectors [PDF]
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2016 The goal of this paper is to serve as a guide for selecting a detection architecture that achieves the right speed/memory/accuracy balance for a given application and platform.
Jonathan Huang +10 more
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Impact of smart locker use on customer satisfaction of online shoppers in Vietnam
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 In recent years, smart lockers have been increasingly utilised in the last-mile delivery stage of e-commerce. Although this technological advance has received significant scientific attention, especially in developed countries, little is known about the ...
Nguyen Hong Quan +2 more
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How Trade Credits Foster International Trade [PDF]
, 2012 Internationally active firms rely intensively on trade credits even though they are considered particularly expensive. This phenomenon has been little explored so far.
Eck, Katharina +2 more
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