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We study the demand for government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both sides of the market: the capital investors and...
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-parametric sufficient statistics for arbitrage gains from trade and terms of trade, and a non-parametric elasticity of terms of trade with … respect to supply. For world manufacturing trade 2000-2014, China's gains rose 2%yearly and terms of trade fell 8.3%. US gains … fell 2% yearly and terms of trade rose 5.5%. Counterfactual industrial policy that raises US 2014 world sales share by 1 …
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for time-interval-varying depreciation-cum-adjustment. A time-varying trade elasticity in the structural gravity model is … implied. Our methods explain the 'international elasticity puzzle,' the discrepancy between trade elasticity estimates from … the trade literature and the international real business cycle literature. The same theory-motivated estimating equation …
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To provide sharp answers to basic questions in international trade, a standard approach is to focus on a small open … trade literature a SOE is defined instead as one that takes foreign-good prices and export demand schedules as given. In …
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Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...
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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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Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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David Ricardo initially believed machinery would help workers but revised his opinion, likely based on the impact of automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the largest sectors in the British economy, real wages for cotton weavers did not rise for decades. As...
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How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three types of capital: traditional physical capital...
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In the presence of markup differences, externalities and other social considerations, the equilibrium direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing comparative static results and characterizes...
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