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This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current structure of global supply chain networks. Using an instrumental variable strategy, combined with a novel dataset that links firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US...
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This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...
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We characterize what features make supply chains more resilient. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event-study design we find firms with suppliers in...
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decline in import growth. We then construct measures of export exposure to import tariffs by linking tariffs paid by importing …
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global input-output data, we show that US exposure to foreign suppliers, and particularly to China, is 'hidden' in the sense …
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This paper empirically examines the effects of financial crises on the organization of production of multinational enterprises. We construct a panel of European multinational networks from 2003 through 2015. We use as a financial shock the increase in risk premia between August 2007 and July...
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This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. We use a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of quality...
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from China. Although population headcounts of the foreign-born fell by more than those of the native-born in regions … exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … industries that would later see increased import penetration from China. The foreign-born share of the working-age population in …
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This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global … that capital deepening made China's production and exports more capital-intensive, although labor-biased productivity … growth acted as a counterforce. Consistent with the data, our model demonstrates that China's trade openness peaked around …
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as deviations from this norm. Our findings reveal that China exhibits the largest home bias across all major countries … and in nearly all scientific fields studied. This stands in contrast to the pattern of home bias for China's trade in … goods and services, where China does not stand out from most industrialized countries. After adjusting citation counts for …
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