The United States became a net exporter of manufactured goods around 1910 after a dramatic surge in iron and steel … exports began in the mid-1890s. This paper argues that natural resource abundance fueled the expansion of iron and steel … equivalent to nearly 30 years of industry productivity growth in its effect on iron and steel export prices. The results are …

using monthly prices across 345 U.S.- imported Canadian iron and steel products from 1989 through 1995, some of which …

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …

productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …

The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on … Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … of input use. The equilibrium organization of production and the network structure of input-output linkages arise …

production. At the same time United States experienced a quot;transportation revolutionquot;, a key component of which was the …

The adoption and diffusion of inputs in the production network is at the heart of technological progress. What … existing production network plays a crucial role in the diffusion of inputs and the evolution of technology …

of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational production. The … costs of foreign investment are large. Second, I calibrate the model to data on trade and multinational production for … divert a sizable fraction of the production of EU multinationals from the US to Canada …