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International Prices and Endogenous Quality
Feenstra, Robert C.; Romalis, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The unit values of internationally traded goods are heavily influenced by quality. We model this in an extended monopolistic competition framework where, in addition to choosing price, firms simultaneously choose quality. We allow countries to have non-homothetic demand for quality. The optimal...
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Trade Liberalization, Quality, and Export Prices
Yeaple, Stephen Ross; Fan, Haichao; Li, Yao Amber - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
's producers to upgrade the quality of the goods that they export. The paper first documents two stylized facts regarding the … effect of trade liberalization on export prices and its relation with product differentiation. Next, the paper develops a … raise its export price in industries where the scope for quality differentiation is large while to lower its export price in …
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Trade and Inequality in India
Krishna, Pravin; Sethupathy, Guru - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
To study the effects of the dramatic economic reforms undertaken in India in the early 1990s on inequality, this paper examines Theil inequality as well as other inequality measures constructed using Indian household expenditure survey data from 1988-2005. Overall inequality shows some variation...
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Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments
Kee, Hiau Looi; Krishna, Kala; Cherkashin, Ivan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
reducing fixed costs at various levels can be quite effective as export promotion devices, with the exports induced per dollar …
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China's Local Comparative Advantage
Harrigan, James; Deng, Haiyan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
predicts that China's share of export markets should grow most rapidly where China's share is initially large. A corollary is … product, China's export unit values should be increasing in distance. We find strong support for this effect in our empirical …
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Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India
Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina; Khandelwal, Amit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
New goods play a central role in many trade and growth models. We use detailed trade and firm-level data from a large developing economy--India--to investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs, the imports of intermediate inputs and domestic firm product scope. We estimate...
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Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment
Dean, Judith M.; Lovely, Mary E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
the export sector. We then estimate this model using pooled data on four pollutants over ten years. Econometric results …
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Testing the Theory of Trade Policy: Evidence from the Abrupt End of the Multifibre Arrangement
Harrigan, James; Barrows, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Quota restrictions on United States imports of apparel and textiles under the multifibre arrangement (MFA) ended abruptly in January 2005. This change in policy was large, predetermined, and fully anticipated, making it an ideal natural experiment for testing the theory of trade policy. We focus...
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Footloose and Pollution-Free
Ederington, Josh; Levinson, Arik; Minier, Jenny - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
In numerous studies, economists have found little empirical evidence that environmental regulations affect trade flows. In this paper, we propose and test several common explanations for why the effect of environmental regulations on trade may be difficult to detect. We demonstrate that while...
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Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence
Amiti, Mary; Davis, Donald R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers' wages varies with the global engagement of their firm. Our model predicts that a fall in output tariffs lowers wages at...
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