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claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage … discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to …
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This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …
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We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...
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This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009 …. Their vote share increases with import competition and decreases with export access opportunities. We unpack mechanisms …
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rest of world. Most countries export products that complement the US and substitute China, and a subset operate along …We study global trade responses to the US-China trade war. We estimate the tariff impacts on product-level exports to … the US, China, and rest of world. On average, countries decreased exports to China and increased exports to the US and …
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examining the 2013-2015 export slowdown in China. We exploit detailed customs data and the variation they reveal about Chinese …. Prefectures that experienced a more severe export slowdown witnessed a significant increase in incidents of labor strikes. This … be predicted from the observed export slowdown, suggesting that local leaders were held to account on yardsticks related …
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decision by both state controlled and private entities to export in a model with labor adjustment costs. In this complex … environment, a simple decision rule whereby export status depends only on current productivity does not hold. Nor does this rule … match data patterns. The estimated model is used to understand the factors that influence export status. The analysis …
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census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms … their mode of export - either directly or indirectly through an intermediary. The model predicts that intermediaries will be …
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