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The Brazil-Taxation dispute concerns the complaints taken to the World Trade Organisation by the European Union and … clear case of policies dictated by strong domestic political-economy forces, with little attention to impacts on consumers …
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I study the impact of industrial policy on industrial development by considering an important episode during the East Asian miracle: South Korea’s heavy and chemical industry (HCI) drive, 1973–1979. Based on newly assembled data, I use the introduction and termination of industrial policies...
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This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After … defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform …
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integrated economy, both relative to integration across the borders of the German state and in absolute terms. Second, this …
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This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...
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Industrial policies are widely credited with upgrading the economic structure of the People's Republic of China (PRC …) and advancing its economy towards and beyond the current technological frontier. Yet the data suggest that the PRC …'s economy-wide investment patterns - with investment embodying technological progress - are largely divorced from industrial …
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estimate direct and indirect domestic value added in exports of different types of firm. We find that in China, both state … downstream within industries. These findings suggest that SOEs still play an important role in shaping China's exports. …
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supply chains - and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …
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The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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