This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and … level to construct an instrument for multilateral openness that varies across countries and time. The instrument can be used …’ performances as well as for the direct effect of disasters. We find that the elasticity of income with respect to openness is about …

monetary model are not fully robust to data frequency and alternative estimation periods, either. Nevertheless, adding openness … research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation …

countries from 1983 to 2006, we analyze the role of economic and financial openness as well as tax competition while allowing … for dynamic adjustment to shocks and period-specific as well as country-specific effects. While openness does not seem to …

In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments … we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the … with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa. …

companies. We argue that this may lead to estimation bias as damage data and the selection into the database may correlate with … affected by geophysical disasters; rich more by meteorological events. International openness and democratic institutions …

manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow …