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Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....

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Winners and Losers in International Trade : The Effects on U.S. Presidential Voting

Jensen, J. Bradford - 2016

effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to … diminish such support. Our national-level models show for the first time that increasing imports are associated with decreasing … incumbent vote shares, and increasing exports correlate with increasing vote shares for incumbents. These effects are large and …

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Lobbying Behind the Frontier

Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This chapter investigates the non-market response of firms to international trade shocks increasing the level of competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms...

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Trade-Policy Dynamics : Evidence from 60 Years of U.S.-China Trade

Alessandria, George A.; Khan, Shafaat Yar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the growth of Chinese imports into the United States from autarky during 1950-1970 to about 15 percent of … overall imports in 2008, taking advantage of the rich heterogeneity in trade policy and trade growth across products during …

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When Tariffs Disturb Global Supply Chains

Grossman, Gene M. - 2020

We study unanticipated tariffs on imports of intermediate goods in a setting with firm-to-firm supply relationships …

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New-Keynesian Trade : Understanding the Employment and Welfare Effects of Trade Shocks

Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2020

There is a growing empirical consensus that trade shocks can have important effects on unemployment and nonemployment across local-labor markets within an economy. This paper introduces downward nominal wage rigidity to an otherwise standard quantitative trade model and shows how this framework...

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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters

Dippel, Christian - 2017

Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...

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