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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461940
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2011
"We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395038
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Patterns of Skill Premia
Acemoglu, Daron - 1999
In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471782
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The Aftermath of the 1992 ERM Breakup : Was There a Macroeconomic Free Lunch?
Gordon, Robert J. - 1999
This paper examines the macroeconomic aftermath of the 1992 breakdown of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). The economic performance of six leaver' nations is compared with five stayer' nations that maintained a roughly fixed parity with the Deutsche Mark. Recent writing about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471843
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Trade and Structural Interdependence Between the U.S. and the NICs
Branson, William H. - 1984
During the decade since 1973, the U.S. economy has become increasingly interdependent with the newly industrializing countries (NICs) among the developing countries. These countries have had high investment ratios to GNP, financed mainly by domestic saving, but also partly by foreign borrowing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477813
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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2010
We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462402
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China’s Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950
Keller, Wolfgang - 2020
The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and … foreigners in China were tried according to the laws of their country of origin (extraterritoriality). To better understand the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481413
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Exporting from China : The Determinants of Trade Status
Cooper, Russell - 2020
This paper studies the exporting decision of Chinese manufacturing firms. The economic framework stresses the dynamic decision by both state controlled and private entities to export in a model with labor adjustment costs. In this complex environment, a simple decision rule whereby export status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482507
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A Global View of Productivity Growth in China
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2011
take this classic question to the data by measuring the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth. Our framework … the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth are small causing the real incomes of China's trading partners to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461879
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China's Foreign Trade : Perspectives From the Past 150 Years
Keller, Wolfgang - 2010
This paper studies the trade of China in the past 150 years, starting from the first opening of China after the Opium … War. The main purpose of the paper is to identify what is (and was) China's 'normal' level of foreign trade, and how these … levels changed under different trade regimes, from 1840 to the present. We present new evidence on China's foreign trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462107