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Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales
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About: Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales is a facility organization based out in Paris, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Trade barrier & Productivity. The organization has 81 authors who have published 239 publications receiving 5961 citations. The organization is also known as: CEPII.
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TL;DR: In this article, the estimation and interpretation of gravity equations for bilateral trade is discussed, and several theory-consistent estimation methods are presented. But the authors argue against sole reliance on any one method and instead advocate a toolkit approach.
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the estimation and interpretation of gravity equations for bilateral trade. This necessarily involves a careful consideration of the theoretical underpinnings since it has become clear that naive approaches to estimation lead to biased and frequently misinterpreted results. There are now several theory-consistent estimation methods and we argue against sole reliance on any one method and instead advocate a toolkit approach. One estimator may be preferred for certain types of data or research questions but more often the methods should be used in concert to establish robustness. In recent years, estimation has become just a first step before a deeper analysis of the implications of the results, notably in terms of welfare. We try to facilitate diffusion of best-practice methods by illustrating their application in a step-by-step cookbook mode of exposition.
1,852 citations
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TL;DR: The authors showed that China's outstanding export performance is directly linked to its integration in the international segmentation of production processes, which has allowed for a rapid diversification of its manufactured exports, from textiles and clothing to the electric and electronic industries.
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01 Jan 2010TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of imported inputs on the margins of exports was studied using a unique firms' level database of imports at the product level provided by French Customs for the 1995-2005 period.
Abstract: Following Melitz (2003)'s seminal paper, several theoretical and empirical studies have shown that only the subset of most productive firms export. While other studies provide evidence on a positive effect of an increase in imported inputs on firms' productivity, the link between imported intermediate inputs and export scope has not been made. This paper bridges the gap by studying the impact of imported inputs on the margins of exports. We use a unique firms' level database of imports at the product (HS6) level provided by French Customs for the 1995-2005 period. Access to new varieties of inputs may increase productivity, and thereby exports, through better complementarity of inputs, transfer of technology and/or decreased inputs price index. We test for these different mechanisms by distinguishing the origin of imports (developing vs. developed countries) and constructing an exact price index a la Broda and Weinstein (2006). We find a significant impact of higher diversification and increased number of imported inputs varieties on firm's TFP and export scope. Whereas the complementarity and transfer of technology mechanisms are supported by our results, the price effect seems very limited.
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TL;DR: The emergence of China has intensified the international segmentation of production processes within Asia, but has not created an autonomous engine for the region's trade, as Asia still depends on outside markets for its final goods exports as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the rapid technological upgrading of China's trade is associated with an increasing dependence on foreign capital and technology, and that the emergence of China has led to the reorganisation of production in Asia and to a triangular trade pattern: firms in advanced Asian economies use China as an export base and instead of exporting finished goods to the US and Europe, now export intermediate goods to their affiliates in China.
Abstract: China has taken advantage of the globalisation process and has become an assembly country for firms in Asia, which have extended their production and trade networks to China. China’s position in the segmentation of the production processes has fostered its trade in high-technology products. However the rapid technological upgrading of China’s trade is associated with an increasing dependence on foreign capital and technology. The emergence of China has led to the reorganisation of production in Asia and to a triangular trade pattern: firms in advanced Asian economies use China as an export base and instead of exporting finished goods to the US and Europe, now export intermediate goods to their affiliates in China.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Thierry Mayer | 61 | 197 | 18706 |
Lionel Fontagné | 49 | 296 | 8108 |
Hillel Rapoport | 47 | 193 | 11322 |
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré | 40 | 215 | 5762 |
Valérie Mignon | 37 | 193 | 5081 |
Sébastien Jean | 34 | 139 | 3385 |
Guillaume Gaulier | 33 | 111 | 3808 |
Jacques Melitz | 30 | 110 | 3803 |
David Laborde | 29 | 127 | 2830 |
Soledad Zignago | 27 | 101 | 4388 |
Matthieu Crozet | 26 | 73 | 2679 |
Joaquim Oliveira Martins | 26 | 99 | 2713 |
Farid Toubal | 25 | 95 | 3885 |
Virginie Coudert | 25 | 72 | 2228 |
Mathilde Maurel | 25 | 127 | 1966 |