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Using a panel data set of county-level employment in machinery, electrical machinery, primary metals, transportation, and instruments, this paper analyzes the role of dynamic externalities for individual industries. Key issues examined include the role of externalities from own industry...
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We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
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evaluate its welfare consequences. This paper examines an important industrial policy in China in the 2000s, aiming to propel … model of firm entry, exit, investment, and production, we find that the scale of the policy was massive and boosted China …
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Industrial clusters are promoted by policy and generally viewed as good for growth and development, but both clusters and policies may also enable non-competitive behavior. This paper studies the presence of non-competitive pricing in geographic industrial clusters. We develop, validate, and...
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- can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro …
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subsidies provided to China's publicly traded firms. We categorize subsidies into different types. We then estimate total … suggest that China's increasingly prescriptive industrial policies may have generated limited effects in promoting …
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Rising concern over the impact of Chinese industrial policy has led to severe trade tensions between China and some of … its major trading partners. In recent years, foreign criticism has increasingly focused on the so-called "Made in China …-in-differences approach to examine how the "Made in China 2025" policy initiative has impacted firms' receipt of subsidies, R&D expenditure …
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We characterize sabotage, exemplified by recent U.S. policies concerning China's semiconductor industry, as trade …
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compares the actual performance of markets in Europe and China, two regions of the world that were relatively advanced in the … findings suggest that relative levels of market function in China and Europe were similar prior to the Industrial Revolution …
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We study the impacts of a rural development program designed to boost the income of the smallfarm sector in Nicaragua. Exploiting the random assignment of treatment, we find statistically and economically significant impacts on gross farm income and investment in productive farm capital. Using...
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