Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146486 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-705
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
In this paper, we estimate the effects of custom-related delays on firms' exports. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the universe of Uruguay's export transactions over the period 2002-2011 and includes precise information on the actual time it took for each of these transactions to go through customs. We account for potential endogeneity of these processing times by exploiting the conditional random allocation of shipments to different verification channels associated with the use of riskbased control procedures. Results suggest that delays have a significant negative impact on firms' exports along several dimensions. Effects are more pronounced on sales to newer buyers.
Subjects: 
Customs
Exports
Uruguay
JEL: 
F10
F13
F14
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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