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industry has sought to have countervailing duties imposed upon Canadian lumber imports. The U.S. interests argue that Canada …For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood … lumber. Through three successive rounds of administrative litigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. sawmill …
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power: lumber and flour mills. Digitizing Census of Manufactures manuscripts for 1850 to 1880, we show that as steam costs …
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policies in an empirical model of U.S. Forest Service timber auctions. The model fits the data well both within the sample of …
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-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and … innovation. It features the joint selection of firms into innovation and international market participation (in our model, we … for innovation …
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What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing ground for this question: freight rates fell on average by 50% while global trade increased 400% from 1870 to 1913. We estimate the first indices of bilateral freight rates for...
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The existence of a natural resource curse has been a longstanding theme in the economic literature and in policy discussions. We propose an alternative mechanism and study its policy implications. The mechanism is based on the interaction between two building blocks: specialization in...
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Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of stark contrasts in the degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and...
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We discuss the relationship between a resource-rich developing country and a multi-national corporation (MNC) that is developing its resources for the international market. We model the connections between transparency, permeability (defined as the amount of resource rent that leaves the...
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I use U.S. patent data from 1970 to 1994 to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy-efficient innovations. Using …-side factors, such as scientific advancements that make new innovations possible. I find that both energy prices and the quality of … existing knowledge have strongly significant positive effects on innovation. Furthermore, I show that omitting the quality of …
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exception of Venezuela, significant increases in human capital enable comprehensive wealth to be maintained (and sustainability …
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