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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394540
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How Did the Dollar Peg Fail in Asia?
Ito, Takatoshi - 1999
Japanese and US firms in their markets. The duopoly model is used to determine export prices and volumes in response to the … fluctuation of the growth rate of trade balance is derived. These are the novel features of our model. The export price equation … and export volume equation are estimated for several Asian countries for the sample period of 1981 to 1996. Results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471508
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In Search of Substitution Between Foreign Production and Exports
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999
Are foreign production and exports substitutes or complements? The continuing globalization of production makes the question of the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment ever more important. Standard theory of the multinational corporation (MNC) assumes substitution, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471633
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Exporting and Productivity
Bernard, Andrew B. - 1999
Exporting is often touted as a way to increase economic growth. This paper examines whether exporting has played any role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed positively correlated across manufacturing industries....
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659997
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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing...
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Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry
Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
' absence and had heterogeneous effects: larger firms and those with direct contractual relationships in export markets suffered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629517
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Opposing firm-level Responses to the China Shock : Horizontal Competition Versus Vertical Relationships?
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Lequien, Matthieu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We decompose the "China shock" into two components that induce different adjustments for firms exposed to Chinese exports: a horizontal shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and a vertical shock affecting firms using inputs similar to the imported...
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A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics
Eaton, Jonathan; Eslava, Marcela; Jinkins, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that … response of total export sales to an exchange rate shock exceeds the 1-year response by about 40 percent, with the 1-year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599390
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Cross-Product and Cross-Market Adjustments Within Multiproduct Firms : Evidence from Antidumping Actions
Bao, Xiaohua; Blonigen, Bruce A.; Yu, Zhi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
study uses Chinese firm-product-level export data to examine how an AD action, a very targeted trade policy against a … specific product in a specific export destination, affects a multiproduct firms' price and quantity decisions across its other … products and export destinations. We find robust evidence for a new phenomenon we call within-firm cross-product trade …
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