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Product Variety, the Cost of Living and Welfare Across Countries

Cavallo, Alberto; Feenstra, Robert C.; Inklaar, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

real consumption for a select group of nations in Europe and some large countries like China and Russia, but lower in most …

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The ‘China Shock’, Exports and U.S. Employment : A Global Input-Output Analysis

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input … gain due to merchandise exports was 3.7 million jobs. In comparison, U.S. merchandise imports from China led to reduced … total job losses of 2.0 million. It follows that the expansion in U.S. merchandise exports to the world relative to imports …

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Globalization in an age of crisis : multilateral economic cooperation in the twenty-first century

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.); Taylor, Alan M. (contributor) - 2014

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Estimating real production and expenditures across nations : a proposal for improving the Penn world tables

Feenstra, Robert C. (contributor) - 2004

"In this paper we propose a new approach to international comparisons of real GDP measured from the output-side. The traditional Geary-Khamis system to measure real GDP from the expenditure-side is modified to include differences in the terms of trade between countries. It is shown that this...

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...

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World Trade Flows : 1962-2000

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data … United Nations classification. This dataset updates the Statistics Canada World Trade Database as described in Feenstra … from Hong Kong and China, and imports into many other countries …

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Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations : A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004

In this paper we propose a new approach to international comparisons of real GDP measured from the output-side. The traditional Geary-Khamis system to measure real GDP from the expenditure-side is modified to include differences in the terms of trade between countries. It is shown that this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467823

Undertstanding the Home Market Effect and the Gravity Equation : The Role of Differentiating Goods

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1998

This paper argues that the theoretical foundations for the gravity equation are general, while the empirical performance of the gravity equation is specific to the type of goods examined. Most existing theory for the gravity equation depends on the assumption of differentiated goods. We show...

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Putting Things in Order : Patterns of Trade Dynamics and Growth

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We develop a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using dis-aggregated American imports data. We find strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent with the product cycle' hypothesis. Countries habitually begin to export goods to the United States...

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World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, with Production and Tariff Data

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

This paper describes two databases dealing with world bilateral trade flows: the World Trade Database (WTDB) assembled …

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