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Title: The Margins of US Trade (Long Version)

Author(s): Andrew B. Bernard, J Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding and Peter K. Schott

Publication Date: February 2009

Keyword(s): heterogeneous firms, product differentiation and product market entry and exit

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: 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 behavior of related-party and arm's-length trade in response to the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

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Bernard, A, Jensen, J, Redding, S and Schott, P. 2009. 'The Margins of US Trade (Long Version)'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7156