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frictions in production and distribution of a many country world. The starting point is the international incidence of … reduce sectoral skill premia. Bigger sellers' incidence by country (sector) reduces equilibrium shares of world (national …
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Countries that are more engaged in production sharing exhibit higher bilateral manufacturing output correlations. We use data on trade flows between US multinationals and their affiliates as well as trade between the United States and Mexican maquiladoras to measure production-sharing trade and...
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This paper explores the emergence of a world economy since 1950 and its implications for the world's labor force. There …, the world economy is still in its adolescence. Rapid integration has occurred among the industrial economies, but … the industrial economies, but not in world income inequality as the income gap between the industrial and developing …
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After decades of rising global economic integration, the world economy is now fragmenting. To measure this phenomenon …
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We study the role of exchange rates in industrial policy. We construct an open-economy macroeconomic framework with production externalities and show that the desirability of these policies critically depends on the dynamic patterns of externalities. When they are stronger in earlier stages of...
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Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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This paper estimates the impact of external demand shocks on real income. Our empirical strategy is based on a first order approximation to a wide class of small open economy models that feature sector-level gravity in trade flows. The framework allows us to measure foreign shocks and...
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The core subjects of trade theory are the pattern and volume of trade: which goods are traded by which countries, and how much of those goods are traded. The first part of the paper discusses evidence on comparative advantage, with an emphasis on carefully connecting theory models to data...
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a model in which economic space is instead assumed to be continuous, and in which this 'seamless world' spontaneously …
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This paper develops an elementary theory of global supply chains. We consider a world economy with an arbitrary number …
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