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Distance, Skill Deepening and Development : Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?

Redding, Stephen - 2003

This paper models the relationship between countries' distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education, and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports, reducing the amount of value added left to...

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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China versus the World

Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2007

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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The Relative Sophistication of Chinese Exports

Schott, Peter K. - 2006

, I compare China's export bundle to those of the relatively skill- and capital-abundant members of the OECD as well as to …This paper examines the relative "sophistication" of China's exports to the United States along two dimensions. First … similarly endowed U.S. trading partners. Second, I examine prices within product categories to determine if China's varieties …

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...

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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time

Pierce, Justin R. - 2009

This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time …

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The Margins of U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2009

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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Firms in International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2007

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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Is Mexico A Lumpy Country?

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2004

Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though labor abundant, it nevertheless exported skill-intensive goods and protected labor-intensive sectors prior to liberalization. Post-liberalization, the relative wage of skilled...

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U.S. Imports, Exports, and Tariff Data, 1989-2001

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2002

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …

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Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income : Evidence from Rural China

Gan, Li - 2006

Using a sample of households in 48 Chinese villages for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies the dynamic effects of major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a...

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