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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 and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …
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We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states …. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic … relationships with suppliers and customers. However, there may also be instances where countries circumvent trade restrictions by …
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declared by its trading partners in official trade statistics for the period 1994-2021 and discusses it in the context of the … larger. We construct a panel dataset to estimate a gravity model of the gap including market size, extent of trade, level of …
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In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...
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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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We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...
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-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …
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channels through which tariff reductions differentially affect males and females, we find that trade-induced competitive …
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We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote … institutional channel for the political effects of trade shocks: the weakening of labor unions. We provide support for this … parties with historical links to unions. Furthermore, the impact of the trade liberalization on the vote share of these …
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language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we … increase in apparel export prices, consistent with trade theory, and that the change estimated with a cross-section IV approach …
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