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contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in … Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are … associated with lower IT prices in European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations …
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We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States … using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before … turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to import competition from China have experienced a greater deterioration …
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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...
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declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …
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contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in … Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are … associated with lower IT prices in European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493033
This study investigates the long-term influence of colonial legacy on the nexus between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and labor market. We construct a panel dataset containing 285 Chinese cities 2011 to 2017 along with detailed information about Chinese modern history during 1842-1955)....
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This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data …
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We propose a theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower … aggregate demand, and thus natural interest rates. At the core of the theory is the simple yet under-appreciated observation … lead to indebted household demand, pushing down natural interest rates. Moreover, popular expansionary policies—such as …
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-entry dynamics of quantities, but no post-entry dynamics of markups. This suggests that shifts in demand play an important role in … successful entry, but that firms do not use dynamic manipulation of markups as an instrument to shift demand. We structurally … advertising to acquire new customers and thereby shift demand and increase sales. In the second, they use temporarily low markups …
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In many markets supply contracts include a series of small, regular payments made by consumers and a single, large bonus that consumers receive at some point during the contractual period. But, if for instance its production costs exceed its value to consumers, such a bonus creates...
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