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The Tradability of Services : Geographic Concentration and Trade Costs

Gervais, Antoine - 2013

In this paper, we use a unique dataset on the distribution of output and demand across regions of the United States to estimate trade costs for 969 service and manufacturing industries. Our estimation method is a natural extension of the gravity model of trade and identifies trade costs in the...

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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks

Branstetter, Lee - 2018

The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...

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Global Supply Chains, Currency Undervaluation, and Firm Protectionist Demands

Jensen, J. Bradford - 2013

We examine firm participation in global supply chains to help explain a puzzling decline in protectionist demands in the U.S. despite increased import competition and ongoing currency undervaluation. To explain firm responses to undervaluation, we rely on advances in the international trade...

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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D

Branstetter, Lee - 2018

markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … large quantities of STEM workers who possessed IT and software skills. Our findings support the view that the globalization …

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Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2010

We combine data on individual trade transactions from U.S. customs records with comprehensive information on firms' employment from the Census Bureau's business register to examine wholesalers and retailers in U.S. exports and imports. Exporters and importers with 100 percent employment in...

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

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2012

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. - 2012

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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Global Firms

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2016

Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms actually engaged in international trade. The now-standard heterogeneous firm model posits measure zero firms that compete under...

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