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The Margins of U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2009

Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding overall patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview...

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Understanding the U.S. Export Boom

Bernard, Andrew B. - 1998

U.S. exports grew at a rate of 8.2% per year from 1987-1994, far faster than the economy as a whole or even the manufacturing sector. This paper examines the source of this export boom and argues that the boom itself has been less remarkable for the rate of growth of exports than for the...

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Winners and Losers in International Trade : The Effects on U.S. Presidential Voting

Jensen, J. Bradford - 2016

This paper studies how international trade influences U.S. presidential elections. We expect the positive employment … politically consequential. We also construct U.S. county-level measures of employment in high- and low-skill tradable activities …. We find increases in incumbent vote shares in counties with concentrations of employment in high-skilled tradable goods …

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