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Tariff Incidence : Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2014
duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1930, a time when … the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …
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Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2006
In the late nineteenth century, the United States imposed high tariffs to protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. This paper examines the magnitude of protection given to import-competing producers and the costs imposed on export-oriented producers by focusing on changes in the...
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Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy
Chor, Davin; Li, Bingjing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How much has the US-China tariff war impacted economic outcomes in China? We address this question using high-frequency night lights data, together with measures of the trade exposure of fine grid locations constructed from Chinese firms' geo-coordinates. Exploiting within-grid variation over...
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The Production Relocation and Price Effects of U.S. Trade Policy : The Case of Washing Machines
Flaaen, Aaron B. - 2019
We analyze several rounds of U.S. import restrictions against washing machines. Using retail price data, we estimate the price effect of these import restrictions by comparing the price changes of washers with those of other appliances. We find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479717
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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Pierce, Justin R. - 2012
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...
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Trade policy issues and empirical analysis : [papers from a conference held by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 13 - 14, 1987]
Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 1988 - 1. [print.]
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Help for the Heartland? : The Employment and Electoral Effects of the Trump Tariffs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Beck, Anne; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other US trade partners at the detailed geographic level, exploiting measures of local exposure to US import tariffs, foreign retaliatory tariffs, and US compensation programs. The...
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The Economic Consequences of Sir Robert Peel : A Quantitative Assessment of the Repeal of the Corn Laws
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2020
Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was the signature trade policy event of the nineteenth century. This paper provides a quantitative general equilibrium evaluation of the repeal on sectoral output and employment, factor prices and income distribution, international trade and the terms of...
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Welfare vs. Market Access : The Implications of Tariff Structure for Tariff Reform
Anderson, James E. - 2004
We show that the effects of tariff changes on welfare and import volume can be fully characterized by their effects on the generalized mean and variance of the tariff distribution. Using these tools, we derive new results for welfare- and market-access-improving tariff changes, which imply two...
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The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000
Recent research has suggested that the antebellum U.S. cotton textile industry would have been wiped out had it not received tariff protection. We reaffirm Taussig's judgment that the U.S. cotton textile industry was largely independent of the tariff by the 1830s. American and British producers...
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