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How Do the "Gats-Plus" and "Gats-Minus" Characteristics of Regional Service Agreements Affect Trade in Services?

Zhou, Nianli - 2014

Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" have become the distinctive characteristics of the service RTAs and this paper aims to investigate and distinguish the different effect of the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus"...

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How Large are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1997

Costinot, Arnaud - 2016

In this paper we develop a new approach to measuring the gains from economic integration based on a generalization of the Ricardian model in which heterogeneous factors of production are allocated to multiple sectors in multiple local markets based on comparative advantage. We implement this...

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Economic Integration and Convergence : U.S. Regions, 1840-1987

Kim, Sukkoo - 2021

-run trends in U.S. regional specialization in agriculture manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, services, and all …-Ohlin" model. Furthermore, while the long-run trends in U.S. regional industrial structures do not" explain all the variations in … regional income per capita, they played an important role in causing" U.S. regional incomes to diverge and then converge …

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Anti-Competitive and Rent-Shifting Aspects of Domestic-Content Provisions in Regional Trade Blocks

Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; Markusen, James R.; … - 2021

Regional trade agreements must specify domestic-content rules (rules of origin) that define the conditions under which …

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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2011

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2004. Using both an error components model as well as simpler but only approximate methods, we find that the transitory variance started to increase in the...

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Explaining Investment Dynamics in U.S. Manufacturing : A Generalized (S,S) Approach

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2011

In this paper we derive a model of aggregate investment that builds from the lumpy microeconomic behavior of firms facing stochastic fixed adjustment costs. Instead of the standard (S,s) bands, firms' optimal adjustment policies are probabilistic, with a probability of adjusting (adjustment...

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Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Burda, Michael C. - 2012

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...

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Immigrant Assimilation into U.S. Prisons, 1900-1930

Moehling, Carolyn M. - 2013

The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns. One feature of these data is that the second generation can be identified, allowing direct analysis of this group and allowing their...

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The Role of External Economies in U.S. Manufacturing

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2007

This paper develops a method for joint estimation of both the degree of internal returns to scale and the extent of …

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Cost of Service Regulation in U.S. Health Care : Minimum Medical Loss Ratios

Cicala, Steve - 2017

A health insurer's Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) is the share of premiums spent on medical claims. The Affordable Care Act introduced minimum MLR provisions for all health insurance sold in fully-insured commercial markets, thereby capping insurer profit margins, but not levels. While intended to...

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