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Task Routineness and Trade Policy Preferences
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2013
Understanding the formation of individual trade policy preferences is a fundamental input into the modeling of trade policy outcomes. Surprisingly, past studies have found mixed evidence that various labor market and industry attributes of workers affect their trade policy preferences, even...
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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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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence
Erdem, Erkan; Tybout, James - 2021
Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...
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Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare
Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William F. - 2005
This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...
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Trade and Inequality in India
Krishna, Pravin - 2011
To study the effects of the dramatic economic reforms undertaken in India in the early 1990s on inequality, this paper …
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Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation
Anderson, James E. - 2008
-country policy modeling. An application to India shows that the standard atheoretic method of aggregation overstates India's real …
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 2021
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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Trade Policy as an Input to Development
Krueger, Anne O. - 2022
My topic is the question: what difference does the set of commercial policies chosen by a developing country make to its rate of economic growth? Three points are salient. First, in its present state, trade theory provides little guidance as to the role of trade policy and trade strategy in...
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130973
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size : Evidence from India
Alfaro, Laura - 2014
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics …
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