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Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing : a Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view
Carluccio, Juan; Cuñat, Alejandro; Fadinger, Harald; … - 2015
fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …
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Comparative advantage in (non-)routine production
Archanskaia, Liza; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Willmann, … - 2020
We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' different ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codifiable (routine) tasks with more efficient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200350
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
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Testing the general validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem : the natural experiment of Japan
Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Brown, John Christopher - 2011
We exploit Japan's 19th century move from autarky to free trade to provide the first test of the general validity of the price formulation of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem. In this formulation a country's autarky factor price vector imposes a single refutable prediction on the economy's factor...
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A factor augmentation formulation of the value of international trade
Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Brown, John Christopher - 2012
We propose a normative assessment of the value of international trade that is rooted in production theory and embeds Ricardo's 1817 formulation of the gains from trade into a multi-factor general equilibrium framework. Without imposing strong assumptions on consumer rationality or data from the...
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A note on detecting dividing lines in turnout : spatial dependence and heterogeneity in the 2012 US Presidential election
Fiorino, Nadia; Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2020
US voters have been moving apart in the last twenty years. This paper analyzes how their voting participation has partitioned by looking at US counties in the 2012 Presidential elections. To tackle this question, we propose a methodology that jointly addresses spatial autocorrelation of the...
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Productivity as if space mattered : an application to factor markets across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - 2013
results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …
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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...
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The importance of consumer taste in trade
Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019
This paper documents the importance of consumer taste in trade flows using Belgian firm-product customs data by destination. We identify consumer taste through the use of a control function approach and estimate it jointly with other demand parameters using a very flexible demand specification....
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