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We study the instability of hyper-specialization of exports. We have two main findings. (1) Specializations are surprisingly unstable: Export ranks are not persistent, and new top products and destinations replace old ones. Measurement error is unlikely to be the main or only determinant of this...
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We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
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goods in the composition of investment has a significant positive effect on per capita income growth rates across countries …, in particular, in developing countries. Hence, the composition of investment in addition to the volume of total capital …
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We study the macroeconomic consequences of tariffs. We estimate impulse response functions from local projections using a panel of annual data that spans 151 countries over 1963-2014. We find that tariff increases lead, in the medium term, to economically and statistically significant declines...
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We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring...
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I document a significant deindustrialization trend in recent decades, that goes considerably beyond the advanced, post-industrial economies. The hump-shaped relationship between industrialization (measured by employment or output shares) and incomes has shifted downwards and moved closer to the...
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growth to the 1990s, discussing recent criticisms of their measurement and estimation framework. Our results suggest that the …. Third, and most importantly, we present new evidence on the time paths of economic growth, physical capital investment and … liberalization has, on average, robust positive effects on growth, openness and investment rates within countries. We illustrate …
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We examine how credit constraints affect the cyclical behavior of productivity-enhancing investment and thereby … volatility and growth. We first develop a simple growth model where firms engage in two types of investment: a short-term one and … a long-term productivity-enhancing one. Because it takes longer to complete, long-term investment has a relatively less …
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novel theoretical model that establishes a link between trade liberalization and investment-led growth. Estimating equations … domestic protection depresses investment and thereby slows growth. Foreign trade barriers also lower domestic investment, but … the anti-investment effect is weaker and is less robust to sample and specification changes …
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This paper presents five theoretical openness-and-growth links that can account for trade-induced investment-led growth …, cross-country data suggests that openness influences growth only via its effect on investment, and suggests that openness … promotes investment in all countries whatever the capital-intensive of their exports (contrary to predictions of the old …
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