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Evolving Discretionary Practices of U.S Antidumping Activity
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2003
Previous literature has discussed the procedural biases that exist in U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) dumping margin calculations. This paper examines the evolution of discretionary practices and their role in the rapid increase in average USDOC dumping margins since 1980. Statistical...
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The Optimal Tax on Antebellum U.S. Cotton Exports
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2001
export tax? This paper estimates the elasticity of foreign demand for U.S. cotton exports and uses the elasticity in a simple … indicate that the export demand elasticity for U.S. cotton was about -1.7 and that the optimal export tax of about 50 percent …The United States produced about 80 percent of the world's cotton in the decades prior to the Civil War. How much …
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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 effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to diminish such support. Our national-level models show for...
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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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Technical Progress in U.S. Manufacturing Sectors, 1948-1973 : An Application of Lie Groups
Sato, Ryuzo - 1985
The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of Lie transformation groups as developed by the first author, and derive a testable model of production and technical change. The econometric model is then applied to data derived by F. Gollop and D. Jorgenson for U.S. manufacturing industries...
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Some Empirical Evidence on Hysteresis in Aggregate US Import Prices
Baldwin, Richard - 1988
This paper empirically investigates the hypothesis that hysteresis has occurred in US aggregate non-oil import prices. We find strong evidence that a shift has occurred in the exchange rate pass-through relationship in the 1980~~ and that the nature of the shift is consistent with the hysteresis...
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What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal about Life-Cycle Earnings Risk?
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
We study the evolution of individual labor earnings over the life cycle using a large panel data set of earnings histories drawn from U.S. administrative records. Using fully nonparametric methods, our analysis reaches two broad conclusions. First, earnings shocks display substantial deviations...
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive...
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Latent Exports : Almost Ideal Gravity and Zeros
Anderson, James E. - 2020
successful export promotion between non-partners …
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