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Investment Responses to Trade Liberalization : Evidence from U.S. Industries and Plants

Pierce, Justin R. - 2017

This paper examines the effect of a change in U.S. trade policy on the domestic investment of U.S. manufacturers. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, we find that industries more exposed to reductions in import tariff uncertainty exhibit relative declines in investment...

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Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2010

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness and determinants of product switching among U.S. manufacturing firms … increase in real U.S. manufacturing shipments between 1972 and 1997 is due to the net adding and dropping of products by … industry dynamics emphasizing firm heterogeneity and self-selection into individual product markets. Our findings suggest that …

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Product Choice and Product Switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper develops a model of endogenous product selection by firms. The theory is motivated by new evidence we present on the importance of product switching by U.S. manufacturers. Two-thirds of continuing firms change their product mix every five years, and product switches involve more than...

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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment

Pierce, Justin R. - 2012

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U …

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Trade Liberalization and Mortality : Evidence from U.S. Counties

Pierce, Justin R. - 2016

manufacturing employment, a sector in which whites and males are disproportionately employed. We also examine other causes of death …

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Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

differences, unobserved regional factor quality differences, and variations in production technology across industries. Using data … that industry mix varies systematically across the groups. Regions that switch cones over time have more churning of …

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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time

Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time; describes the concordances we construct for 1989 to 2004; and provides Stata code that can be used to construct similar concordances for arbitrary beginning and ending years from 1989...

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Does Trade Liberalization with China Influence U.S. Elections?

Che, Yi; Lu, Yi; Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K.; … - 2021

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share of votes cast for Democrats and the probability that the...

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Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals : A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. That Trade Goods

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper provides an integrated view of globally engaged U.S. firms by exploring a newly developed dataset that links U.S. international trade transactions to longitudinal data on U.S. enterprises. These data permit examination of a number of new dimensions of firm activity, including how many...

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Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2010

We combine data on individual trade transactions from U.S. customs records with comprehensive information on firms' employment from the Census Bureau's business register to examine wholesalers and retailers in U.S. exports and imports. Exporters and importers with 100 percent employment in...

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