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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from the United States
Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2021
We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
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Are International R&D Spillovers Trade-Related? Analyzing Spillovers Among Randomly Matched Trade Partners
Keller, Wolfgang - 2021
Monte Carlo based robustness test is proposed which compares the elasticity of domestic productivity with respect to foreign … R&D estimated by Coe and Helpman with an elasticity which is based on counterfactual international trade patterns. I …
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The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a social planner to choose the migration policies...
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On Average Establishment Size Across Sectors and Countriesy
Bento, Pedro - 2018
countries. The cross-country income elasticity of establishment size is remarkably similar across sectors, about 0.3. We discuss …
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The Elasticity of Trade : Estimates and Evidence
Simonovska, Ina - 2011
elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a new simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this … elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data and we use it within Eaton and Kortum's (2002) Ricardian model. We apply … elasticity of roughly four, nearly fifty percent lower than Eaton and Kortum's (2002) approach. This difference doubles the …
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John J. - 2017
Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...
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Will Ad Blocking Break the Internet?
Shiller, Benjamin - 2017
Ad blockers allow Internet users to obtain information without generating ad revenue for site owners; and by 2016 they were used by roughly a quarter of site visitors. Given the ad-supported nature of much of the web, ad blocking poses a threat to site revenue and, if revenue losses undermine...
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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from Odesk and India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...
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Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms : Evidence from Aliexpress
Bai, Jie; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Liu, Jin; Yi Xu, Daniel - 2022
We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality measures from AliExpress establish the existence of search and information frictions. A randomized experiment that offers new exporters exogenous demand and...
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