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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016
We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994896
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Sizing Up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017
context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum … propose a structural estimation framework to evaluate the hypothesis, and estimate the parameters based on the customs data of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946038
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Quantifying International Production Sharing at the Bilateral and Sector Levels
Wang, Zhi - 2013
disaggregated decomposition results among 40 trading nations in 35 sectors from 1995 to 2011 based on the World Input …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072571
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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-Emu Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015976
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An Anatomy of U.S. Firms Seeking Trademark Registration
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2018
This paper reports on the construction of a new dataset that combines data on trademark applications and registrations from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with data on firms from the U.S. Census Bureau. The resulting dataset allows tracking of various activity related to trademark use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911097
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The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations
Daruich, Diego - 2016
surprisingly unstable: Export ranks are not persistent, and new top products and destinations replace old ones. Measurement error … of this instability: Only 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in comparative advantage … (source-by-product factors), while another 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in bilateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978517
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Commodity Trade and the Carry Trade : A Tale of Two Countries
Ready, Robert C. - 2013
Persistent differences in interest rates across countries account for much of the profitability of currency carry trade strategies. "Commodity currencies'' tend to have high interest rates while low interest rate currencies belong to exporters of finished goods. This pattern arises in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076915
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2014
export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062080
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Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity
Harrigan, James - 2018
We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its bias towards skilled occupations. We use a novel measure of the propensity of a firm to engage in technology investment and adoption: its employment of workers with STEM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907442
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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life : Problems and Prospects
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2021
Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218445