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Post-Neoliberal Globalization : International Trade Rules for Global Prosperity

Guzman, Martín; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper analyzes frameworks for the design of the rules for international trading, assuming that it is possible to have some rule of law. In the Arrow-Debreu benchmark, where there is no economic power and political power is seemingly irrelevant, there is no need for trade agreements - free...

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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil

Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that...

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Production, Trade, and Cross-Border Data Flows

Chang, Qing; Cong, Lin William; Liyong, Wang; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-existing development gaps in data economies on each country's production and international trade. Raw data as byproducts of consumption can …

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Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, we document analogous patterns within the US. Google Trends data reveal a pronounced interest in markets where ancestral …

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Prison Labor : The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

Archibong, Belinda; Obikili, Nonso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are primarily used as a source of labor using evidence from British colonial Nigeria. We digitized 65...

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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …

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Combinatorial Discrete Choice : A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decisions

Arkolakis, Costas; Eckert, Fabian; Shi, Rowan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Neoclassical Growth in an Interdependent World

Kleinman, Benny; Liu, Ernest; Redding, Stephen; Yogo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We generalize the closed-economy neoclassical growth model (CNGM) to allow for costly goods trade and capital flows with imperfect substitutability between countries. We develop a tractable, multi-country, quantitative model that matches key features of the observed data (e.g., gravity equations...

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Voting on a Trade Agreement : Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness

Van Patten, Diana; Méndez, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a single question on the ballot, 59% of Costa Rican adult citizens cast a vote on...

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Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

Alfaro-Ureña, Alonso; Faber, Benjamin; Gaubert, Cecile; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-wage workers lose due to adverse indirect effects on their wages and the domestic price index …

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