Trade cost shocks and lumpiness of imports: Evidence from the Fukushima disaster
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2016. (Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 360).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Trade cost shocks and lumpiness of imports
T2 - Evidence from the Fukushima disaster
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach to test the hypothesis that the increase in the per-shipment costs of imports from Japan due to the Fukushima disaster in 2011 lead to an increase in the lumpiness of imports from Japan. Using China and the USA as control groups it is found that the Fukushima trade cost shock reduced the average number of import transactions per year at the firm-good level and, therefore, increased the degree of lumpiness of imports from Japan.
AB - This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach to test the hypothesis that the increase in the per-shipment costs of imports from Japan due to the Fukushima disaster in 2011 lead to an increase in the lumpiness of imports from Japan. Using China and the USA as control groups it is found that the Fukushima trade cost shock reduced the average number of import transactions per year at the firm-good level and, therefore, increased the degree of lumpiness of imports from Japan.
KW - Economics
KW - Fukushima disaster
KW - trade shock
KW - imports
KW - Germany
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working Paper Series in Economics
BT - Trade cost shocks and lumpiness of imports
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -