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development zones on firm level TFP in China. The difference-in-difference estimator shows that on average, loss of development … three major seaports in China, closure of zones reduced firm-level TFP by 9.62%, whereas closure of zones farther away did … locational heterogeneity. We conclude that China's strategy of using development zones as a place-based policy to encourage …
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Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two …
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Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …
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China is planning to implement the largest CO<sub>2</sub> emissions trading system in the world. To reduce emissions … matching analytically and numerically solved models to assess the cost-effectiveness and distributional impacts of China …
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We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade retaliation, but saw no commensurate electoral gains from US tariff protection. The electoral losses were driven by retaliatory tariffs on agricultural products, and were only...
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evolve as we expected. China is likely to graduate from the periphery to the center in the next few years. This graduation … cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …
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This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These …-participation countries will lose. If non-tariff barriers are reduced more, the impacts will be larger. All effects to China on welfare, trade …, export and import are positive. Comparatively China-TPP and RCEP will yield the highest welfare outcomes for the US in our …
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Abstract The paper considers formally the mapping from distortions in the allocations of resources across firms to aggregate productivity. TFP gaps are characterized as the integral of a strictly concave function with respect to an employment-weighted measure of distortions. Size related...
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patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment …
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US, China, and India reveals substantial losses in productivity and output due to the informational friction. Our … estimates for these losses range from 7-10% for productivity and 10-14% for output in China and India, and are smaller, though …
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