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We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate …
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our theoretical results to China's 2001 WTO accession, we find that China's tariff reductions exceeded reciprocity norms …, increasing real incomes but amplifying the manufacturing employment dislocation - the China Shock - in the United States and …
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The legitimacy of the world trading system is under growing attack, as challenges to its conformity with norms of fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom up" approach to concerns for fairness, we show how...
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Existing formal models of the relationship between trade policy and regulatory policy suggest the potential for a regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations. This paper bridges the gap between the existing formal...
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There are often conflicts between proponents of trade and environmental activists. This paper shows, however, how trade agreements can be designed so as to motivate environmental conservation. I first analyze a standard trade model, where resource exploitation (e.g., deforestation) is a...
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We review the growing literature on the effects of antidumping, a trade policy that has emerged as the most serious impediment to international trade. Over the past 25 years countries have increasingly turned to antidumping in order to offer protection to import-competing industries. Antidumping...
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Intense US-China commercial rivalry is quantified in this paper with novel non-parametric relative resistance … sufficient statistics. The accounting method minimizes the demand specification error variance in revealed resistances. China …'s manufacturing seller incidence falls (seller price rises) 7.6% yearly as China's sales share quadruples over 2000-14. US seller …
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migration on China's spatial development and aggregate growth during the 1990s and 2000s. We find that initial conditions across … and aggregate growth in China. Changes in international trade costs and mobility restrictions during the 1990s and 2000s …
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We characterize sabotage, exemplified by recent U.S. policies concerning China's semiconductor industry, as trade …
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tariff escalation increasing in the extent of downstream returns to scale. A quantitative evaluation of the US-China trade …
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