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The Effect of the U.S.-China Trade War on U.S. Investment

Amiti, Mary; Kong, Sang Hoon; Weinstein, David E. - 2022

We develop a new method of quantifying the impact of policy announcements on investment rates that makes use of stock market data. By estimating the effect of U.S.-China tariff announcements on aggregate returns and the differential returns of firms exposed to China, we identify their effect on...

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The mystery of the excess trade (balances)

Davis, Donald R.; Weinstein, David E. - In: The American economic review 92 (2002) 2, pp. 170-174

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The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare

Amiti, Mary - 2019

This paper explores the impacts of the Trump administration's trade policy on prices and welfare. Over the course of 2018, the U.S. experienced substantial increases in the prices of intermediates and final goods, dramatic changes to its supply-chain network, reductions in availability of...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Keiretsu : Rethinking U.S. And Japanese Policy

Weinstein, David E. - 2013

Japan suggests that foreign firms sell five to six times more in Japan than is commonly believed. Previous studies severely … underestimated the stock of FDI in Japan due to poor data. Second, after finding that even after adjusting for various factors the … level of FDI in Japan is still low, the paper explores explanations for this phenomenon. A second main conclusion is that …

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Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices

Weinstein, David E. - 2010

Between 1992 and 2002, the Japanese Import Price Index registered a decline of almost 9 percent and Japan entered a …

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Do Endowments Predict the Location of Production? Evidence from National and International Data

Bernstein, Jeffrey R.; Weinstein, David E. - 2021

Examining the relationship between factor endowments and production patterns using international and Japanese regional data, we provide the first empirical confirmation of Ethier's correlation approach to the Rybczynski theorem. Moreover, we find evidence of substantial production indeterminacy....

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Trade and Growth : Import-Led or Export-Led? Evidence from Japan and Korea

Lawrence, Robert Z.; Weinstein, David E. - 2021

competitive firms. The results in our paper suggest that when it comes to TFP growth, this view of Japan is seriously erroneous …. We find that lower tariffs and higher import volumes would have been particularly beneficial for Japan during the period … productivity growth. Our findings on Japan suggest that the salutary impact of imports stems more from their contribution to …

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Product creation and destruction : evidence and price implications

Broda, Christian M.; Weinstein, David E. - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 3, pp. 691-723

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Globalization, Markups and U.S. Welfare

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This paper is the first attempt to structurally estimate the impact of globalization on markups, and the effect of changing markups on welfare, in a monopolistic competition model. To achieve this, we work with a class of preferences that allow for endogenous markups and firm entry and exit that...

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Bones, bombs, and break points : the geography of economic activity

Davis, Donald R.; Weinstein, David E. - In: The American economic review 92 (2002) 5, pp. 1269-1289

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