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This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...
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Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import … from 1975 through 2000, this paper examines whether steel-sector IPs have a significant impact on the export … find that a one-standard-deviation increase in IP presence leads to a 3.6% decline in export competitiveness for an average …
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This paper is the first to study empirically the effects of European antidumping actions on import diversion from importers 'named' in an antidumping investigation, and potentially subject to protectionist measures, to countries not named' in the investigation. For this purpose we use a unique...
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the quantity of world trade carried by air to increase over time. Country pairs with relatively short air routes compared …
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horizon of a year or so, which is the horizon of price setting, they both lead to lower export prices and greater demand for …
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Although many modern studies find large and significant effects of prior colonial status on bilateral trade, there is very little empirical research that has focused on the contemporaneous impact of empire on trade. We employ a new database of over 21,000 bilateral trade observations during the...
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dollar depreciation on real trade flows is dominated by an adjustment in U.S. export quantities, which increase as U.S. goods … become cheaper in the rest of the world. Real U.S. imports are affected less because U.S. prices are more insulated from …
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of World War I and World War II …
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This paper studies empirically the effects of financial crises on international trade. The major findings are that banking crises had a negative impact on imports but a positive impact on exports in the short term, whereas currency crises decreased imports in the short term and stimulated...
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