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This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
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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 …
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Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
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I examine the effects of globalization in countries where the employed workers support the unemployed and the governments control wages by regulating the workers' relative bargaining power. I use a general oligopolistic equilibrium model of two integrated countries with two inputs: labor and...
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We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980‐1997 on sectoral export … use relationship‐specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries using standardized inputs …
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trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession … to the World Trade Organization.We find that trade liberalization has not switched firms away from exercising product and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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country studies find export led growth in middle and low income countries is associated with improvements in women …, especially for women. Natural resource exports, although providing foreign exchange for imports, appear to reduce investments in …
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