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Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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effects of trade. We estimate the model using the structural relationship between China-shock driven changes in manufacturing … employment and average earnings across US groups defined by commuting zone and education. We find that the China shock increases …
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effects of the monetary policies of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and of the People's Bank of China on the …
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We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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1980s, and, despite China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, changed little throughout the late … the trade growth that followed China's WTO accession was a delayed response to previous reforms rather than a response to …
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since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
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supply chains - and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …
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Does international trade affect the growth of cities, and vice versa? Assembling disaggregate data for four countries, we document a novel stylized fact: Export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We rationalize this fact by...
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This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global … that capital deepening made China's production and exports more capital-intensive, although labor-biased productivity … growth acted as a counterforce. Consistent with the data, our model demonstrates that China's trade openness peaked around …
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