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Market Access and International Competition : A Simulation Study of 16K Random Access Memories
Baldwin, Richard E. - 1986
ask the following question: how much did the apparent closure of the Japanese market to imports affect Japan's export … otherwise have been uncompetitive both at home and abroad. We find, however, that Japan's home market protection nonetheless … produced more costs than benefits for Japan …
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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2010
differential effects on the performance of the IT industries in the United States and Japan. Using a broad unbalanced panel of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462494
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala - 1996
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473162
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994
Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474180
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U.S. Wages in General Equilibrium : The Effects of Prices, Technology, and Factor Supplies, 1963-1991
Harrigan, James - 1999
Wage inequality in the United States has increased, and many suspect that the main causes are changes in technology, international competition, and factor supplies. Our empirical model estimates the general equilibrium relationship between wages and technology, prices, and factor supplies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471819
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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing...
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Lobbying Behind the Frontier
Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This chapter investigates the non-market response of firms to international trade shocks increasing the level of competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms...
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Local Shocks and Internal Migration : The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US
Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of...
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Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing : Evidence from Certification Elections
Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Johnson, Matthew S.; Tadjfar, Nagisa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We assess whether and why trade competition partly explains the sharp decline in U.S. workers' attempts to organize labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union certification elections by 4.5% among workers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696373
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U.S. and Foreign Competition in the Developing Countries of the Asian Pacific Rim
Baldwin, Robert E. - 1987
, Canada, Japan, the European Community, Australia and New Zealand, and in the region itself is also studied, revealing the … familiar result that the developing countries of the region and Japan have increased their market shares significantly since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476861