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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 360

Classification
Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
Subject
Fukushima disaster
trade shock
imports
Germany

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Wagner, Joachim
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
(where)
Lüneburg
(when)
2016

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Wagner, Joachim
  • Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

Time of origin

  • 2016

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