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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234937
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Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality
Harrison, Ann E. - 2010
The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137608
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Networks Versus Markets in International Trade
Rauch, James E. - 2012
I propose a network/search view of international trade in differentiated products. I present evidence that supports the view that proximity and common language/colonial ties are more important for differentiated products than for products traded on organized exchanges in matching international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113599
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antras, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124546
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando - 2012
We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101512
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The Tradability of Services : Geographic Concentration and Trade Costs
Gervais, Antoine - 2013
In this paper, we use a unique dataset on the distribution of output and demand across regions of the United States to estimate trade costs for 969 service and manufacturing industries. Our estimation method is a natural extension of the gravity model of trade and identifies trade costs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071505
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Trade Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium
Cravino, Javier - 2017
We study how international trade affects manufacturing employment and the relative wage of unskilled workers when goods and services are traded with different intensities. Manufacturing trade reduces manufacturing prices worldwide, which reduces manufacturing employment if manufactures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954463
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Distortions and the Structure of the World Economy
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017
We develop a model of the world economy as input-output relationships subject to distortions. We then propose a … the sectoral TFPs. We then derive a closed-form solution of the elasticities of each entry in the world input … distortions and TFPs of the input-output matrix of the world economy. We show that internal (within a given country) distortions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958578
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The Crucial Role of International Trade in Adaptation to Climate Change
Gouel, Christophe - 2018
Climate change effects on agricultural yields will be uneven over the world with a few countries, mostly in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908471
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Trade, Production Sharing, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759633