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We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....
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the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on …-level economic indicators, we find that this effect was driven by country-sector pairs most similar to their counterparts in China …" businesses and technology pioneered by China, and that a system where only rich countries lead in innovation could limit …
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We document the rise of China in offshore capital markets. Chinese firms use global tax havens to access foreign … capital both in equity and bond markets. In the last twenty years, China's presence went from raising a negligible amount of …
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As a bridge between Chinese mainland and international financial markets, the Stock Connect program allows investors on both sides to gain mutual access. By analyzing how cross-border flows respond to macro-related shocks, we show that compared with possibly homemade foreign investors, genuine...
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model's firm-level predictions by using confidential microdata from Japan. We study the response of Japanese MNC parents and … of their affiliates in China to an exogenous change in China's openness to foreign direct investment (FDI). We find that … in industries where inward FDI was encouraged, Japan MNC's affiliates in China experienced increases in their employment …
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This paper studies how rewards based on class rank affect student effort and performance using a game-theoretic classroom competition model and data from the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees in the US. The paper finds that variation in the presence of strong or weak students changes the...
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We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...
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This paper defines risk-on risk-off (RORO), an elusive terminology in pervasive use, as the variation in global investor risk aversion. Our high-frequency RORO index captures time-varying investor risk appetite across multiple dimensions: advanced economy credit risk, equity market volatility,...
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We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment model, we estimate responses, identify parameters, and conduct counterfactuals. Domestic investment of firms with the mean tax change increases 20% versus a no-change baseline. Due...
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We develop a unified framework to trace value added along global supply chains in the presence of foreign direct investment by decomposing either GDP based on forward linkages or final production based on backward linkages. The new framework accounts for the presence of foreign invested...
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