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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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We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...
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reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer …
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Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …
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The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ) founded one year ago is a trial for China's new round of reform and … also make a preliminary assessment of the SPFTZ's initial impacts, especially of its impact on China's capital account … replicated in China will give rise to a more balanced Chinese economy in the following decade …
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We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework … turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …
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the industry and commuting-zone levels, and then estimates the impact of the `China shock' on each job-flow type. The … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change … that granted Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to China. We find that the China shock affects U.S. employment …
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evolve as we expected. China is likely to graduate from the periphery to the center in the next few years. This graduation … cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …
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Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … million in 1990 to $2.6 billion in 2006. On the basis of these data, one frequently hears the claim that China is now a …
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competitive devaluations. The sheer size of China, and its lower sterilization costs suggests that China may be the winner of a … and precautionary motives in the context of China may be challenged by a version of the quot;peso problem.quot; Hoarding …
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