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, we find effects around three times as strong for country pairs associated with small import shares, and a zero effect for … large import shares. Our results imply that conventional homogeneous currency union estimates do not provide helpful …
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. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or foreign suppliers, but with higher costs in the latter case. Due to fixed … the model with newly-compiled monthly aggregate U.S. import data and industrial production data going back to 1962, and …
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What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of...
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What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical episode provide for the present day? To answer these...
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This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...
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We study the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on UK foreign direct investment. Using the synthetic control method to construct appropriate counterfactuals, we show that by March 2019 the Leave vote had led to a 17% increase in the number of UK outward investment transactions in the remaining...
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United Kingdom. Our identification strategy uses input-output linkages to account for heterogeneity in exposure to import … import shares in consumer expenditure. This effect is driven by both direct consumption of imported goods and the use of … imported inputs in domestic production. Our results are consistent with complete pass-through of import costs to consumer …
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We study stock market reactions to the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016 in order to assess investors' expectations about the effects of leaving the European Union on the UK economy. Our results suggest that initial stock price movements were driven by fears of a cyclical downturn and by the...
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How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can … reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US … export growth following the permanent normalization of trade relations with China (PNTR). But there was also an offsetting …
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Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over the last few decades has been urban-biased: structural change has been more pronounced in areas with higher population density. This bias can be accounted for by the location...
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