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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012

When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …

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Magnification of the ‘China Shock’ Through the U.S. Housing Market

Xu, Yuan; Ma, Hong; Feenstra, Robert C. - 2022

to work. Controlling for housing reduces the negative coefficient of import exposure on manufacturing employment by 20 …-25%, with a significant indirect magnification through the housing market. Combining manufacturing and construction employment …, the indirect effect of the China shock through the housing market explains one-fifth as much of the variance in employment …

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Business groups and product variety in trade : evidence from South Korea, Taiwan and Japan

Feenstra, Robert C.; Yang, Tzu-han; Hamilton, Gary G. - In: Journal of international economics 48 (1999) 1, pp. 71-100

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Pass-through of exchange rates and purchasing power parity

Feenstra, Robert C. - In: Journal of international economics 43 (1997) 1, pp. 237-261

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Symmetric pass-through of tariffs and exchange rates under imperfect competition : an empirical test

Feenstra, Robert C. - In: Journal of international economics 1 (1989), pp. 25-45

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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2011

We examine financial literacy in the United States using the new National Financial Capability Study, wherein we demonstrate that financial literacy is particularly low among the young, women, and the less-educated. Moreover, Hispanics and African-Americans score the least well on financial...

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What is the Price of Tea in China? Towards the Relative Cost of Living in Chinese and U.S. Cities

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We examine the price and variety of products at the barcode level in cities within China and the United States. In both countries, there is a greater variety of products in larger cities. But in China, unlike the United States, the prices of products tend to be lower in larger cities. We...

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How Did China's WTO Entry Affect U.S. Prices?

Amiti, Mary - 2017

We analyze the effects of China's rapid export expansion following WTO entry on U.S. prices, exploiting cross-industry variation in trade liberalization. Lower input tariffs boosted Chinese firms' productivity, lowered costs, and, in conjunction with reduced U.S. tariff uncertainty, expanded...

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The ‘China Shock’, Exports and U.S. Employment : A Global Input-Output Analysis

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input …

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Quality Upgrading and its Welfare Cost in U.S. Steel Imports, 1969-74

Boorstein, Randi - 2010

In this paper we measure the quality change which has occurred in U.S. steel imports during the 1969-74 VRA, using an index number method. Under this approach, the yearly changes in unit values is broken into three components: a quality-adjusted or pure price index; a quality index, which...

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