We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...

We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...

Korea’s Green New Deal and plans for developing offshore wind power have brought greater attention to offshore wind power. To overcome Korea’s limitations in terms of land area and natural resources, the country’s position as a peninsula must be fully utilized. Toward this end, it is...

This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...

At the recent National Budget Speech, it was announced that South African pension funds and Regulation 28 (Reg28) compliant funds are now allowed to allocate up to 45% of their total portfolio to offshore investments. The obvious question is then: What is the optimal offshore allocation for...

This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration on the labour demand of native workers differentiated by four different types of occupational groups: managers/professionals, clerical workers, craft (skilled) workers and...