We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets that are integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). The manufacturing firm needs to set these two prices to balance three competing interests: restricting competition in the PI-recipient market, avoiding resource wastes due to actual trade, and reducing the double-mar...

International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006 The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on the empirical part o...

Input-output models are useful tools for regional science owing to their ability to capture many of the distinguishing features of a regional economy. Since input-output tables are hard to find at the regional level, many researchers adopt nonsurvey techniques to derive regional input-output tables (RIOTs). Numerous methods have been suggested and this has spawned a stream of literature compari...

1668 The smaller the volume (or share) of imports from the trading partner, the larger the impact of a preferential trade agreement on home country welfare—because the smaller the imports, the smaller the loss in tariff revenue. And the home country is better off as a small member of a large bloc than as a large member of a small bloc. Summary findings There has been a resurgence of preferentia...

Economic theories show that the direction and magnitude of the fluctuations of economic variables depend on the type and magnitude of the shocks they are faced with. Various reasons are noted for fluctuations in demands for imports, including productivity shocks. Accordingly, this research was aimed at identifying the effects of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) shocks of the agricultural sector ...

We investigate the impact of imports intermediate inputs on export value and portfolio among Spanish regular two-way trade manufacturing firms over period 1997–2018. After controlling for firm characteristics addressing endogeneity, we find that import from non-EUEFTA countries enhance volume scope their EU15 exports. The magnitude is similar high-income low-income there are no changes in sourc...

The paper shows how and why international trade endogenous technological change are part of a Schumpeterian loop in advanced countries. Imports stir the creative response firms exposed to global competition engender introduction productivity-enhancing innovations that contingent upon knowledge competence available each industry. new industry-specific technologies augments both productivity expo...

In the 1980’s and 1990’s many African countries liberalised their trade policy, although since the mid 1990s there are countries that did not alter tariffs. This allows us to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the change in imports using Difference-inDifferences techniques that allow us to evaluate the impact on imports of trade liberalisation at the general and sector-specific leve...

• We investigate the change in worker flows within firms around an investment automation-intensive goods. identify ”automation spikes” using imports of capital goods embedding automation technologies. find that spikes are linked to increase firms’ net employment growth rate. The is explained by a higher hiring and lower separation. Workforce composition does not appear significantly following a...

It is known that rich households purchase goods of higher prices and quality than the poor ones. In this paper, we show that this difference is systematically related to the variation in access to imports across states within the U.S. Specifically, we investigate to what degree imports affect the differences in prices of durables purchased by households across income distribution. Our identific...