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

product varieties, or new foreign suppliers, and determine the effect of this bias on the estimated income elasticity of … index. Using a correction based on the falling expenditure share on sampled countries, we find that the income elasticity of …

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

Feenstra, Robert C.; Romalis, John; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the year 2001, disaggregated by Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), and the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) categories. In...

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Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

The recent literature on quid pro quo foreign direct investment (FDI) suggests that FDI may be induced by the threat of protection, and further, that FDI may be used as an instrument to defuse a protectionist threat. This paper uses a panel data set of 4-digit SIC level observations of Japanese...

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Pricing to Market, Staggered Contracts, and Real Exchange Rate Persistence

Bergin, Paul R. - 2010

This paper offers an explanation for the persistence observed in real exchange rate movements. The model combines pricing to market behavior with sticky prices generated by staggered contracts. A translog preference structure is sued to enhance both features. The paper finds that openness limits...

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In Search of the Armington Elasticity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2014

The elasticity of substitution between goods from different countries---the Armington elasticity---is important for … many questions in international economics, but its magnitude is subject to debate: the "macro" elasticity between home and … import goods is often found to be smaller than the "micro" elasticity between foreign sources of imports. We investigate …

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The Us-China Bilateral Trade Balance : its Size and Determinants

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hai, Wen; Woo, Wing Thye; Yao, Shunli - 2021

estimation method that takes advantage of our access to detailed Chinese Customs data at the commodity level. For example, the …

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Testing Endogenous Growth in South Korea and Taiwan

Feenstra, Robert C.; Madani, Dorsati; Yang, Tzu han; … - 2021

We evaluate the endogenous growth hypothesis using sectoral data for South Korea and Taiwan. Our empirical work relies on a direct measure of the variety of products from each sector which can serve as intermediate inputs or as final goods. We test whether changes in the variety of these inputs,...

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Estimating the Effects of Trade Policy

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2021

This paper reviews empirical methods used to estimate the impact of trade policies under imperfect competition. We decompose the welfare effects of trade policy into four possible channels: (i) a deadweight loss from distorting consumption and production decisions; (ii) a possible gain from...

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Undertstanding the Home Market Effect and the Gravity Equation : the Role of Differentiating Goods

Feenstra, Robert C.; Markusen, James R.; Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021

gravity equation should have a lower domestic income elasticity for exports of homogeneous goods than of differentiated goods …

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Accounting for Growth with New Inputs

Feenstra, Robert C.; Markusen, James R. - 2021

In this paper we examine how to account for growth when new inputs are being created. In particular, we obtain a decomposition of growth into that due to a higher quantity of existing inputs, and that due to a greater range of inputs. This decomposition is first obtained for a single firm, with...

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