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From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China” : Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2016
relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is …, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978531
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The Economy of People's Republic of China from 1953
Cheremukhin, Anton - 2015
This paper studies growth and structural transformation of the Chinese economy from 1953 to 2012 through a lens of a two-sector growth model. The main goal of the paper is to provide a systematic analysis of both the pre-1978 reform and post-1978 reform periods in a unified framework. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018719
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Why are American Workers Getting Poorer? China, Trade and Offshoring
Ebenstein, Avraham - 2015
increasing import penetration, China's entry into the WTO, and growing US multinational employment abroad. We find significant … between industry and occupational analyses. While other research has focused primarily on China's trade, we find that … offshoring to China has also contributed to wage declines among US workers. However, the role of trade is quantitatively much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026297
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Business Cycle During Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective
Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019
fluctuations of China.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864144
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The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential
Brülhart, Marius; Desmet, Klaus; Klinke, Gian-Paolo - 2021
How does a country's economic geography evolve along the development path? This paper documents recent employment growth in 18,961 regions in eight of the world's main economies. Overall, market potential is losing importance, and local density is gaining importance, as correlates of local...
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Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing : Understanding Cohort Effects
Costa, Dora L. - 2011
We find that households living in California homes built in the 1960s and 1970s had high electricity consumption in 2000 relative to houses of more recent vintages because the price of electricity at the time of home construction was low. Homes built in the early 1990s had lower electricity...
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The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing : Evidence from Microdata
Martin, Ralf - 2011
We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of outcomes between plants subject to the CCL and plants that were granted an 80% discount on the levy after...
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions : Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
Allcott, Hunt - 2012
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison- based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. First, initial reports cause high-frequency "action and backsliding," but these cycles attenuate over time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098808
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Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Marginal Emissions : Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2012
In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location and time of day across the United States. The approach takes account of the generation mix within interconnected electricity markets and shifting load profiles throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099410
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Knowledge is (Less) Power : Experimental Evidence from Residential Energy Use
Jessoe, Katrina Kohajda - 2012
This paper presents experimental evidence that information feedback dramatically increases the price elasticity of demand in a setting where signals about quantity consumed are traditionally coarse and infrequent. In a randomized controlled trial, residential electricity customers are exposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101504