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The Margins of U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2009

Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding overall patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview...

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Firms in International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2007

Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...

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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.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...

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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time

Pierce, Justin R. - 2009

This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time …

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U.S. Imports, Exports, and Tariff Data, 1989-2001

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2002

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …

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The Collection Efficiency of the Value Added Tax : Theory and International Evidence

Aizenman, Joshua - 2005

This paper evaluates the political economy and structural factors explaining the collection efficiency of the Value … Added Tax [VAT]. We consider the case where the collection efficiency is determined by the probability of audit and by the … penalty on underpaying. Implementation lags imply that the present policy maker determines the efficiency of the tax system …

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Sargent-Wallace Meets Krugman-Flood-Garber, or : Why Sovereign Debt Swaps Don't Avert Macroeconomic Crises

Aizenman, Joshua - 2002

-finance optimizing problem. We shows that under conditions similar to those which prevailed in Russia and Argentina prior to their …

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Geopolitical Shocks And Commodity Market Dynamics : New Evidence From The Russian-Ukraine Conflict

Aizenman, Joshua; Lindahl, Robert; Stenvall, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the event-based geopolitical shocks from the Russian invasion of Ukraine on selected agricultural and energy commodities using daily event-based structural vector autoregression (SVAR). We find that the geopolitical shock affects the markets of wheat (3%) and European natural gas...

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Risks and global supply chains : What we know and what we need to know

Baldwin, Richard E.; Freeman, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs were either shorter and more domestic, or more diversified. But is this right? We start our answer by...

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Exchange Market Pressure and Absorption by International Reserves : Emerging Markets and Fear of Reserve Loss During the 2008-09 Crisis

Aizenman, Joshua - 2010

This paper evaluates how the global financial crisis emanating from the U.S. was transmitted to emerging markets. Our focus is on the extent that the crisis caused external market pressures (EMP), and whether the absorption of the shock was mainly through exchange rate depreciation or the loss...

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