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In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade...
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been the most successful region in the world in building up or joining regional and global supply chains and has been … one of the biggest "malls" in the world. Whereas in 1999 - 2000 around half of all consumption goods exported by East Asia … of the world. …
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and 2010 congressional elections and the 2000, 2008, and 2016 presidential elections, we detect an ideological realignment that is centered in trade-exposed local labor markets and...
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International trade is one of the key mechanisms for the diffusion of energy efficient technologies. Yet, little is known how regulations to fight climate change affect the international trade in goods needed to increase energy efficiency. This paper studies the case of the Energy Performance of...
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Globalization has radically changed the way in how goods and services are produced. The impact of globalization on …
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The high hopes that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would open up trade across the Pacific were dashed by the decision of the new US Government under President Trump to withdraw from the agreement in January 2017. Despite being controversial, the TPP had been recognized as an agreement that...
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To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank remain central today … actors to participate, making it more representative of the current world order and making it possible to mobilize more …
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this paper we develop a framework for examining how pre-tax and post-tax cleavages may differ across globalization … appear to be crucial in shaping opinions towards alternative globalization strategies …
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their small size and remoteness from major world markets. In this paper we study the importance of transport connectivity … for Pacific economies when participating in the world economy. The paper first describes the evolution of trade flows of … datasets. One contains all shipping connections within the Pacific and with the rest of the world; the second all flight …
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This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...
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