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Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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The United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US firms to expand employment. Using a … total impact of trading with China is a positive boost to local employment and real wages. The most important factor is …
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effects of trade. We estimate the model using the structural relationship between China-shock driven changes in manufacturing … employment and average earnings across US groups defined by commuting zone and education. We find that the China shock increases …
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supply chains – and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …
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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
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We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and …
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market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank%u2019s desire to hold a …
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