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This Paper analyses industrial policy in a high wage open economy hosting an agglomeration consisting of vertically linked upstream and downstream firms. We show that optimal policy towards upstream industries typically differ from the optimal policy towards downstream industries....
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Globalization – improved access to integrated, anonymous markets – is claimed to crowd out cooperative relations: from … reciprocal exchange to lifetime employment, from relational governance to corruption/collusion. We study how agents …
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We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship … consumption of richer households by 6.1 to 9.2 percent. We also find suggestive evidence that governance matters in the …
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In this Paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …
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In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China … under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … in which an accession protocol was used successfully as a defense; and the first that China lost as a complaining party …
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We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters. We estimate that the adoption of subsidies for biotech employers by a state raises the number of star biotech...
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Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
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Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation—measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within...
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This Paper studies the determinants of location choice by foreign investors in France. A new sample of almost 4000 location choices over ten years and 92 administrative locations is used to measure two important issues: To what extent do foreign investors cluster spatially and are the...
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This paper examines the impact of the EC regional aid policies to finance infrastructure investment in the poorest regions where large disparities in public infrastructure (transport, telecommunications, energy and education) exist. We show that in a model in which trade is based on increasing...
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