Arbeitspapier

Trade flows and exchange rates: Importers, exporters and products

Using highly disaggregated transaction-level trade data, we document the importance of new firmlevel trade partner relationships and the addition of new products to existing relationships in driving long-run import flows. Moreover, we find that these margins are sensitive to movements in the exchange rate. We rationalize these findings in a model of international trade with endogenous matching between heterogenous importers and exporters. Simulations of the model highlight a new channel through which exchange rate movements can affect trade - through the short-run formation of new trade relationships and the range of products traded within relationships - which can impact long-run flows.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2019-41

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
International topics
Exchange rates
Firm dynamics

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Devereux, Michael B.
Dong, Wei
Tomlin, Ben
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Bank of Canada
(where)
Ottawa
(when)
2019

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2019-41
Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Devereux, Michael B.
  • Dong, Wei
  • Tomlin, Ben
  • Bank of Canada

Time of origin

  • 2019

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