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Investment Responses to Trade Liberalization : Evidence from U.S. Industries and Plants

Pierce, Justin R. - 2017

This paper examines the effect of a change in U.S. trade policy on the domestic investment of U.S. manufacturers. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, we find that industries more exposed to reductions in import tariff uncertainty exhibit relative declines in investment...

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Is Mexico a Lumpy Country?

Bernard, Andrew B.; Robertson, Raymond; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though labor abundant, it nevertheless exported skill-intensive goods and protected labor-intensive sectors prior to liberalization. Post-liberalization, the relative wage of skilled...

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

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2012

and exports across trading partners, types of trade (i.e., arm's-length versus related-party) and both short and long time …

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Open Regionalism in a World of Continental Trade Blocs

Wei, Shang-Jin; Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2021

Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of …

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Does Openness to Trade Make Countries More Vulnerable to Sudden Stops, or Less? Using Gravity to Establish Causality

Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2021

Openness to trade is one factor that has been identified as determining whether a country is prone to sudden stops in capital inflow, currency crashes, or severe recessions. Some believe that openness raises vulnerability to foreign shocks, while others believe that it makes adjustment to crises...

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The Relative Sophistication of Chinese Exports

Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper examines the relative "sophistication" of China's exports to the United States along two dimensions. First …, I compare China's export bundle to those of the relatively skill- and capital-abundant members of the OECD as well as to … similarly endowed U.S. trading partners. Second, I examine prices within product categories to determine if China's varieties …

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Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform : Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Khandelwal, Amit - 2011

. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the elimination of externally imposed export quotas. We … find that the surge in export value and decline in export prices following quota removal is driven by net entry, and show …

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Does Trade Liberalization with China Influence U.S. Elections?

Che, Yi; Lu, Yi; Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K.; … - 2021

subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …

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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time

Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time …

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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 … years 1989-2001. Earlier CD-ROMs distributed by the NBER described data on U.S. imports and exports from 1972-1994, and …

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