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This paper identifies the effects of preferential trade agreements on trade volumes and prices using detailed trade and tariff data. It identifies demand elasticities by developing a difference in differences based method that exploits the fact that the additional wedge driven between...
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This paper assesses the long-run effects of the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) on the Canadian labor market using matched longitudinal administrative data for the years 1984-2004. We simultaneously examine the labor market effects of increased export expansion and import...
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Why have white, less educated voters left the Democratic Party over the past few decades? Scholars have proposed ethnocentrism, social issues and deindustrialization as potential answers. We highlight the role played by the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In event-study...
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We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology …
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six months, generating an expected net present value (NPV) of over $400 billion. A proportionate advance-investment …
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Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
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This paper presents and analyzes the data on the trends in United States international trade and investment since World … and strengthening of lines of comparative advantage, and balanced and rapid growth in long-term investment. We can also … see increasing volatility of trade and long-term investment in the 1970s, along with a real depreciation of 25 percent in …
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foreign investment. The model points to the destination country's size, level of technological sophistication, and distance …
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trade flows and direct foreign investment positions with a sample of around 100 countries for the period 1985-1990. Country …. Taking other factors into account, however, Western Europe is more open to U.S. direct foreign investment. We also find that … relationships in that the residual correlation among exports, imports, and outward direct foreign investment is much larger than …
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Overseas production in a country by affiliates of Swedish and U.S. firms rarely appears to displace exports from the two home countries and in most cases either has no effect or tends to increase home country exports. The positive effect on Swedish exports is evident not only with respect to...
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