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Exporting is often touted as a way to increase economic growth. This paper examines whether exporting has played any role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed positively correlated across manufacturing industries....
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U.S.-owned manufacturing affiliates in foreign countries tended to become more export-oriented between 1966 and 1977 … affiliate activities in almost all cases. The most export-oriented were subsidiaries in machinery industries in Southeast Asia …, however, and high rates of affiliate export growth were associated with rapid growth of host country GDP and exports …
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assumptions have until very recently usually been made about it. We refer to the relation of exchange rate changes, export prices … in the exchange rate might also alter the relationship between the export price and the domestic price of a given product …
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construction of trade models that a country's export price for a particular product is identical to its domestic price. Any impact … of foreign or domestic events on prices is expected to fall identically on the export and the domestic price for a good … are fairly substantial and long-lasting divergences between export and domestic price changes for the same or closely …
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Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding overall patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview...
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Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...
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This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U … government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are … apt to reenter, and plants are likely to export in consecutive years. However, we find that entry costs are significant …
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manufacturing sector. This paper examines the source of this export boom and argues that the boom itself has been less remarkable … for the rate of growth of exports than for the striking increase in export intensity. This increase in export intensity … income are the dominant sources for the export increase, while productivity increases in U.S. plants play a relatively small …
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This paper studies how international trade influences U.S. presidential elections. We expect the positive employment effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to diminish such support. Our national-level models show for...
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