reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data … establish more subsidiaries in China after PNTR, especially those that emit pollutants heavily. …

Evidence about the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique dataset of international … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … implements an instrumental variable approach that combines the initial structure of exports across municipalities with global …

, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our … dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways … networks ; state exports …

on trade, and especially on exports. Those immigrants should be the ones directly involved in the diffusion and … those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating … exports to culturally different countries, such as those with different legal origin. -- migration ; international trade …