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Global production linkages and stock market comovement

Auer, Raphael A.; Iwadate, Bruce; Schrimpf, Andreas; … - 2023

Although real integration conceptually plays an important role for the comovement of international equity markets, documenting this link empirically has proven challenging. We construct a new dataset of theory-guided, relevant measures of bilateral trade in final and intermediate goods and...

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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?

Almeida, Rita; Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2017

Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...

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Digital technologies and firms' employment and training

Caselli, Mauro; Fourrier-Nicolai, Edwin; Fracasso, Andrea; … - 2024

This study examines the causal influence of digital technologies, specifically operational (ODT) and information digital technologies (IDT), on firms’ employment structure using Italian firm-level data. It employs a unique empirical approach, constructing instrumental variables based on...

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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024

We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...

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Container trade and the U.S. recovery

Kilian, Lutz; Nomikos, Nikos K.; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021

Since the 1970s, exports and imports of manufactured goods have been the engine of international trade and much of that trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from North America. Incorporating this index into a...

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The domestic segment of global supply chains in China under state capitalism

Tang, Heiwai; Wang, Fei; Wang, Zhi - 2014

This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we...

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Trade linkages and the globalisation of inflation in Asia and the Pacific

Auer, Raphael A.; Mehrotra, Aaron N. - 2014

Some observers argue that increased real integration has led to greater co-movement of prices internationally. We examine the evidence for cross-border price spillovers among economies participating in the pan-Asian cross-border production networks. Starting with country-level data, we find that...

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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...

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Tasks, occupations, and slowbalization : on the limits of fragmentation

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2022

Following the trade collapse in 2009, Globalization has recovered but the growth rate slowed down compared to the … preceding period of Hyper Globalization. The persistence of this slowdown is remarkable. We argue that increased awareness of …, while remaining tractable. From an empirical point of view, the model explains both, the period of Hyper Globalization and …

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Decoupling global value chains

Eppinger, Peter S.; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021

Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...

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