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Us Exports and Employment
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017
We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United … considerable number of jobs. On balance over the entire 1991-2007 period, job gains due to changes in US global exports were …
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Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization
Jacks, David S.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Novy, Dennis - 2021
between observed bilateral trade and frictionless trade. They comprise tariffs, transportation costs and all other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224437
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Trade Costs
Anderson, James E.; van Wincoop, Eric - 2021
This paper surveys the measurement of trade costs --- what we know, and what we don't know but may usefully attempt to find out. Partial and incomplete data on direct measures of costs go together with inference on implicit costs from trade flows and prices. Total trade costs in rich countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246402
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Transaction Cost Regulation
Spiller, Pablo T. - 2011
This paper discusses the fundamental underpinnings and some implications of transaction cost regulation (TCR), a framework to analyze the interaction between governments and investors fundamentally, but not exclusively, in utility industries. TCR sees regulation as the governance structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130971
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Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade
Atkeson, Andrew - 2015
We present a general equilibrium model of the decisions of firms to innovate and to engage in international trade. We use the model to analyze the impact of a reduction in international trade costs on firms' process and product innovative activity. We first show analytically that if all firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750342
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Distance, Skill Deepening and Development : Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?
Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2022
education, and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323450
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The Home Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns
Hanson, Gordon H.; Xiang, Chong - 2021
exports of goods with high transport costs and strong scale economies relative to their exports of goods with low transport … exports. For industries with moderately high transport costs, it is neighborhood market size that matters. In this case …, national market size plus market size in nearby countries determine national exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232423
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Trade Adjustment Dynamics and the Welfare Gains from Trade
Alessandria, George - 2014
the tendency of new exporters to export on a small scale, to have low survival rates, and to take time to grow into large … tariffs arise from substituting away from firm creation and towards export capacity. This is in stark contrast to the static … their ability to grow into successful exporters. We calibrate the model and estimate the welfare gains from reducing tariffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044346
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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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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade
Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2009
We develop a framework for studying trade in vertically and horizontally differentiated products. In our model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good as well as making a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156428