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evaluate its welfare consequences. This paper examines an important industrial policy in China in the 2000s, aiming to propel … model of firm entry, exit, investment, and production, we find that the scale of the policy was massive and boosted China …
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Industrial clusters are promoted by policy and generally viewed as good for growth and development, but both clusters and policies may also enable non-competitive behavior. This paper studies the presence of non-competitive pricing in geographic industrial clusters. We develop, validate, and...
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- can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro …
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subsidies provided to China's publicly traded firms. We categorize subsidies into different types. We then estimate total … suggest that China's increasingly prescriptive industrial policies may have generated limited effects in promoting …
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Rising concern over the impact of Chinese industrial policy has led to severe trade tensions between China and some of … its major trading partners. In recent years, foreign criticism has increasingly focused on the so-called "Made in China …-in-differences approach to examine how the "Made in China 2025" policy initiative has impacted firms' receipt of subsidies, R&D expenditure …
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We characterize sabotage, exemplified by recent U.S. policies concerning China's semiconductor industry, as trade …
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This paper develops a multi-agent dynamic model of the commercial aircraft industry and then uses that model to analyze industry pricing, industry performance, and optimal industry policy. In the model, firms are differentiated in their products and cost structure, and entry, exit, prices, and...
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Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 and compare it to the U.S. distribution over the...
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We construct a model of creative destruction with endogenous firm dynamics. We integrate the theory into a general equilibrium multi-country model of technological convergence where countries interact via international spillovers. We derive implications for both firm dynamics and aggregate...
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Does industrial policy work? This is a subject of long-standing debates among economists and policymakers. Using newly digitized microdata, we evaluate the Korean government's policy that promoted heavy and chemical industries between 1973 and 1979 by cutting taxes and building new industrial...
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