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Did Trump's trade war impact the 2018 election?
Blanchard, Emily J.; Bown, Chad P.; Chor, Davin - 2020
We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade retaliation, but saw no commensurate electoral gains from US tariff protection. The electoral losses were driven by retaliatory tariffs on agricultural products, and were only...
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Sinking land : Optimal control of subsidence
Sen, Suphi; Verhoeven, Dewy; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023
sufficiently dry to maintain productivity, which, however, leaves future generations worse off by accelerating subsidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382946
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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs
Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016
Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...
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The real exchange rate in the long run : Balassa-Samuelson effects reconsidered
Bordo, Michael D.; Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Fazio, Giorgio; … - 2014
Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …
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Labor market policies and European crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199422
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Credit constraints, quality, and export prices : theory and evidence from China
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
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Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? : electrical power as a case study
Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - 2014
Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …
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Productivity response to a contract change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; Véricout, Francis de - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252151
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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014
evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391833
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Heterogeneous firms and international trade : the role of productivity and financial fragility
Assenza, Tiziana; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Grazzini, Jakob; … - 2016
Starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) explains why individual … productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to export. In this paper we build a model along Melitz's lines to show … international markets. We show that firms with low productivity may still be able to penetrate foreign markets provided they have …
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