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Trade costs shocks and lumpiness of imports: Evidence from the Fukushima disaster
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 360
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
- Subject
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Fukushima disaster
trade shock
imports
Germany
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Wagner, Joachim
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Veröffentlichung
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
- (where)
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Lüneburg
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Wagner, Joachim
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Time of origin
- 2016