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products with higher market shares conditional on price. The estimated qualities reveal substantial heterogeneity in product …Prices are typically used as proxies for countries' export quality. I relax this strong assumption by exploiting both … price and quantity information to estimate the quality of products exported to the U.S. Higher quality is assigned to …
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Trade in intermediate inputs allows firms to lower their costs of production by using better, cheaper, or novel inputs from abroad. Quantifying the aggregate impact of input trade, however, is challenging. As importing firms differ markedly in how much they buy in foreign markets, results based...
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of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm …We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry …
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This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontal-ness and vertical-ness of affiliates based on Yeaple's complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontal-ness is measured as affiliates' local sales share while their vertical-ness is measures as their share of...
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, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while …We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets …
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to deliver finite solutions for aggregates, such as the price index, requires restrictions on parameter values that may … data on bilateral trade in manufactures among 92 countries and to firm-level export data for a much narrower sample shows …
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International trade became much less multilateral during the 1930s. Previous studies, looking at aggregate trade flows, have argued that discriminatory trade policies had comparatively little to do with this. Using highly disaggregated information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find...
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effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to …
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and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer … international trade and the importance of foreign ownership for firms' export and import decisions …
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-Output Database. We find that the growth in U.S. exports led to increased demand for 2 million jobs in manufacturing, 0.5 million in … jobs are due to the intermediate demand from merchandise (manufacturing and resource) exports, so the total labor demand … demand of 1.4 million jobs in manufacturing and 0.6 million in services (with small losses in resource industries), with …
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