Using dynamic programming, this paper examines effects of farm subsidies on U.S. exports of corn, cotton, rice, and wheat. The six policy simulations described here explore alternative proposals in the current round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The analysis leads to two conclusions. First, abolishing domestic subsidies lowers world prices of these crops. Second, imposing tight...

Each month the U. S. Census Bureau receives from the Customs and Border Protection Service documents describing all U.S. exports over $2,500. Most exporters now file the required documents via the Automated Export System. Because of filing options, for the majority of exporters, we have no information on "low-valued" exports (LVEs), those valued at or below the exemption level of $2,500; for th...

In the last twenty years world trade has expanded dramatically, growing at an average rate of 6%, twice the rate of world GDP. Developing countries have increased their role as world players, now representing approximately 1/3 of world trade. Trade among developing countries has also increased conspicuously: 40% of developing country exports now go to other developing countries. Furthermore, de...

Using detailed micro data from the Indonesian manufacturing sector; we examine whether participation in international trade affects establishments' productivity. Establishments participating in exports or imports have relatively high levels of productivity. Furthermore, the results suggest that establishments engaged in exports have shown comparable high productivity growth. The larger the shar...

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model which tries to reconcile the observation that aggregate movements of exports and imports are "disconnected" from real exchange rate movements, while …rm-level exports co-move signi…cantly with the real exchange rate. Firms are heterogenous, facing recurrent aggregate and product-speci…c productivity shocks, choose which goods to export, an...

Analysis of U.S. Custom Service records for 2001-2003 indicates that nearly 1.7 billion pounds of pesticide products were exported from U.S. ports, a rate >32 tons/hour. Exports included >27 million pounds of pesticides whose use is forbidden in the United States. WHO Class 1a and 1b pesticides were exported at an average rate of >16 tons/day. Pesticide exports included >500,000 pounds of known...

This paper uses the gravity-model approach to deal with two issues related to economic integration. The first concern is to analyse the impact on FDI stocks of specific variables denoting the will to integrate, and their relative impact on exports. Variables considered include tariffs, non-tariff barriers and exchange rate variability. The results show that the widespread opinion – and theoreti...

This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German federal state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001/02 it is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants starts and stops exporting in each year, but that most of the export dynamics is due to positive and n...

The main objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between merchandise exports and revealed comparative advantage (RCA) indicators of Croatian exports on the European Union (EU) market. For this purpose the main hypothesis is defined as follows: a Croatian merchandise export is positively correlated with RCA indicators on the EU market. Based on the empirical tests and using the de...

This paper developed an estimation model for the contribution of exports to a country's regional economy based on the Chenery-Moses model and conducted an empirical analysis using China's multi-regional input-output tables for 1997, 2002, and 2007. The results indicated that China's national exports make significantly different contributions to the provincial economy in various regions, with th...