The margins of US trade
By: Andrew B. Bernard ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bernard, Andrew B., 1963-; London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
Series: CEP discussion paper -- no. 906
Publisher: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding overall patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview of how the margins of trade contribute to variation in U.S. imports and exports across trading partners, types of trade (i.e. arm's-length versus related-party) and both short and long time horizons. Among other results, we highlight the differential behaviour of related-party and arm's-length trade in response to  the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
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