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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …

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The auto-component supply chain in China and India: a benchmark study

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general component suppliers in both countries, and on a detailed benchmarking …

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Trade as an engine of creative destruction: Mexican experience with Chinese competition

Iacovone, Leonardo; Winters, L.A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper exploits the surge in Chinese exports from 1994 to 2004 as a natural experiment toevaluate the effects of a unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. Wefind that this shock causes selection at both firm and product levels as its impact is...

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Estimating the extensive margin of trade

Santos Silva, Joao; Tenreyro, Silvana; Wei, Kehai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Understanding and quantifying the determinants of the number of sectors or firms exporting in a given country is of relevance for the assessment of trade policies. Estimation of models for the number of exporting sectors, however, poses a challenge because the dependent variable has both a lower...

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Cheap imports and the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs

Cooke, Abigail; Kemeny, Thomas; Rigby, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Manufactures, and transaction-level trade data, we find that rising import competition from China and other developing economies …

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Temporary protection and technology adoption: evidence from the Napoleonic blockade

Juhász, Réka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper uses a natural experiment to assess whether temporary protection from trade with industrial leaders can foster development of infant industries in follower countries. Using a new dataset compiled from primary sources, I find that in the short-run regions (départements) in the French...

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A trapped-factors model of innovation

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul M.; Terry, Stephen J.; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We explain a counterintuitive empirical finding: Firms facing more import competition do more innovation. In our model, factors are trapped inside a firm. An increase in import competition encourages a firm to innovate by reducing the opportunity cost of inputs. Without trapped factors, trade...

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Trade crisis?: what trade crisis?

Behrens, Kristian; Corcos, Gregory; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We investigate the dramatic 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian trade essentially fell because of reduced quantities and unit prices, rather than fewer firms involved in international transactions, fewer trading partners per firm, or fewer...

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External integration, structural transformation and economic development: evidence from Argentina

Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina’s integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to provide evidence on the role of internal geography in shaping the effects of external integration. We develop a quantitative model of the distribution of economic activity...

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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change

Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs … conducts a “horse race” between export opportunities and import competition. Using Spanish firm level data, instrumenting for … exports and imports with tariff changes and controlling for selection, I find robust evidence that access to export markets …

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