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What determines the distributions of skills, occupations, and industries across cities? We develop a theory to jointly address these fundamental questions about the spatial organization of economies. Our model incorporates a system of cities, their internal urban structures, and a...
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We build into a Ricardian model sectoral linkages, trade in intermediate goods, and sectoral heterogeneity in … production to quantify the trade and welfare effects from tariff changes. We also propose a new method to estimate sectoral trade … elasticities consistent with any trade model that delivers a multiplicative gravity equation. We apply our model and use our …
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We survey recent literature on the causes of the collapse in international trade during the 2008-2009 global recession …. We argue that the evidence points to the collapse in aggregate expenditure, concentrated on trade-intensive durable goods …, as the main driver of the trade collapse. Inventory adjustment likely amplified the impact of these expenditure changes …
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We argue that the welfare gains from trade in new models with micro-level margins exceed those in frameworks without … these margins. Theoretically, we show that for fixed trade elasticity, different models predict identical trade flows, but … different patterns of micro-level price variation. Thus, given data on trade flows and micro-level prices, different models have …
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This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less generous than it appears because of low product coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering...
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more than half of gross profits. We use our results to simulate the effects of a counterfactual decline in bilateral trade …
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Quantitative results from a large class of structural gravity models of international trade depend critically on the … elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a new simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this … elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data and we use it within Eaton and Kortum's (2002) Ricardian model. We apply …
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This paper develops a methodology for predicting the impact of trade liberalization on exports by industry (3-digit … Ruhl (2013) that much of the growth in trade after trade liberalization is in products that are traded very little or not … growth. Using our methodology, we develop predictions for industry-level changes in trade for the United States and Korea …
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We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes …
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This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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