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Chinese electronics exports. Our key finding is that "missing pioneers" are a low-probability event for large countries, but …
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effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to … incumbent vote shares, and increasing exports correlate with increasing vote shares for incumbents. These effects are large and …
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. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around … 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive margin --- a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50% on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …
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This paper generalizes the gross exports accounting framework, initially proposed by Koopman, Wang, and Wei (2014) for … a country's aggregate exports, to one at the sector, bilateral, and bilateral-sector levels. Such a generalization … requires a conceptual distinction between value added exports by forward and backward industrial linkages, and a non …
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We document a novel stylized fact: Using data for several countries, we show that export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities – even more so than overall economic activity. We account for this fact by marrying elements of international trade and economic geography. We...
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variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which …
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. We confirm these predictions using data for ordinary versus processing exports from Chinese provinces to destination …
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There are two main forms of government in U.S. cities: council-manager and mayor-council. This paper develops a theory of fiscal policy determination under these two forms. The theory predicts that expected public spending will be lower under mayor-council, but that either form of government...
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Like many other developed economies, the United States has imposed fiscal rules in attempting to impose a degree of fiscal discipline on the political process of budget determination. The federal government has operated under a series of budget control regimes that have been complex in nature...
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to make public finance field experiments more useful …
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