Title: Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India

Abstract: New goods play a central role in many trade and growth models. We use detailed trade and firm-level data from a large developing economy—India—to investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs, the imports of intermediate inputs and domestic firm product scope. We estimate substantial static gains from trade through access to new imported inputs...

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Publication ID: 11

Category Description: Accounting Framework for Trade and Macroeconomic Issues

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: NBER

Year: 2008

Month: October

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Author 1: Pinelopi K. Goldberg

Author 2: Amit Khandelwal

Author 3:Nina Pavcnik

Author 4: Petia Topalova

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Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w14416.pdf?new_window=1

Tags: economic growth , firm-level data , import price index , imported intermediates , India ,

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