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Statistics to Measure Offshoring and its Impact

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We identify “first generation” statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, “second generation …

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New Goods and Index Numbers : U.S. Import Prices

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2021

Researchers constructing index number frequently face the problem of new (or disappearing) goods, for which the price and quantity are not available in some periods. In theory, the correct way to handle a new good is to treat its price before it appears as equal to the reservation price (i.e.,...

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Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand

Feenstra, Robert C.; Shiells, Clinton Russell - 2021

The purpose of the paper is to measure the potential bias in the U.S. import price index due to the appearance of new product varieties, or new foreign suppliers, and determine the effect of this bias on the estimated income elasticity of import demand. Existing import price indexes are based on...

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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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