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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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Reciprocal climate negotiators
Nyborg, Karine - 2015
International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...
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The slow demographic transition in regions vulnerable to climate change
Nguyen Thang Dao; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Vasilakis, … - 2022
We consider how the demographic transition has been shaped in regions that are the least developed and the most vulnerable to climate change. Environmental conditions affect intra-household labor allocation because of the impacts on local resources under the poor infrastructural system. Climate...
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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock : evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement
Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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Globalization and strategic research investments
Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
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Illicit shadows : an economic analysis of trade gaps in cultural goods through the Italian market
Acciai, Elia; Belloni, Michele; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2023
This paper provides evidence of a consistent gap in the value of cultural goods exported from Italy and the value declared by its trading partners in official trade statistics for the period 1994-2021 and discusses it in the context of the literature on illicit trafficking in cultural property,...
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Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people
Mayer, Thierry; Rapoport, Hillel; Umana-Dajud, Camilo - 2024
Using provisions to ease the movement of business visitors in trade agreements, we show that removing barriers to the movement of business people promotes trade. We document the increasing complexity of Free Trade Agreements and develop an algorithm that combines machine learning and text...
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How do households adjust to trade liberalization? : evidence from China's WTO accession
Dai, Mi; Huang, Wei; Zhang, Yifan - 2018
We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing larger tariff cuts experienced relative declines...
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