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Countries that are more engaged in production sharing exhibit higher bilateral manufacturing output correlations. We use data on trade flows between US multinationals and their affiliates as well as trade between the United States and Mexican maquiladoras to measure production-sharing trade and...
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Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …
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What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
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in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870 1913 marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization …
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What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based …
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the (less rich) Old World more equal. The evidence on the links between within-country inequality and globalization in the … the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for …
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This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on …
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actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9\% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …
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