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Attribute-based Subsidies and Market Power : an Application to Electric Vehicles
Barwick, Panle Jia; Kwon, Hyuk-soo; Li, Shanjun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Attribute-based subsidies (ABS) are commonly used to promote the diffusion of energy-efficient products, whose manufacturers often wield significant market power. We develop a theoretical framework for the optimal design of ABS to account for endogenous product attributes, environmental...
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The Political Economy of Industrial Policy
Juhász, Réka; Lane, Nathan J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the ways in which political realities shape industrial policy through the lens of modern political economy. We consider two broad "governance constraints": i) the political forces that shape how industrial policy is chosen and ii) the ways in which state capacity affects...
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FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms : Adjustments to New Export Opportunities
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on … exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of foreign and private firms and to employment expansion in formal …
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Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Ayerst, Stephen; Brandt, Loren; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
improvements. We calibrate the model using detailed farm-level panel data from Vietnam, exploiting regional differences in … agricultural institutions and outcomes. We focus on south Vietnam and quantify the effect of higher measured distortions in the … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …
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Sectoral Development Multipliers
Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization
Ghosh, Madanmohan - 2000
effects on imports can also occur. These models when calibrated to 1995 data for Vietnam also suggest quantitatively much …
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Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …
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Export Expansion and Investment in Children's Human Capital : Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement
McCaig, Brian; Nguyen, Minh; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school … enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff …
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Technology and Resilience
Comin, Diego; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Cirera, Xavier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
stages of the pandemic. We exploit a unique data covering firms from Brazil, Senegal, and Vietnam using a treatment effect …
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