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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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country, single period numerical general equilibrium model which captures China and her major trading partners and examine the … outcomes of trade policy bargaining solutions (bargaining over tariffs and financial transfers) over time as China grows more … parameterizations. This yields a measure of both absolute and relative gain to China from bargaining. We calibrate our model to base …
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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 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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market data. By estimating the effect of U.S.-China tariff announcements on aggregate returns and the differential returns of … firms exposed to China, we identify their effect on treated and untreated firms. We show theoretically and empirically that …
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subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …
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How large are optimal tariffs? What tariffs would prevail in a worldwide trade war? How costly would be a breakdown of international trade policy cooperation? And what is the scope for future multilateral trade negotiations? I address these and other questions using a unified framework which...
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What are the gains from international trade? And how do immigrants influence this process? While economists have considered these questions before, particularly in the context of aggregate trade flows, there has been no work assessing the relation between immigration and international trade in...
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A coalition of well-organized semiconductor producers along with compliant government agencies (USTR and the Commerce Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent...
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Using the menu-auction approach to endogenous determination of tariffs and allowing additionally for lobby formation itself to be endogenous, this paper analyzes the impact of unilateral trade liberalization by one country on its partner's trade policies. We find that such unilateral...
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