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Consumer Reviews and Regulation : Evidence from NYC Restaurants

Farronato, Chiara; Zervas, Georgios - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...

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Is the American Soft Power a Casualty of the Trade War?

Fan, Haichao; Hu, Yichuan; Tang, Lixin; Wei, Shang-Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

whether it is recognized as legitimate by Chinese citizens. We study how the viewership of US movies--an important element of … the US soft power--is affected by the trade war, utilizing variations across Chinese cities in the exposure to the Trump …

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The Role of Repugnance in Markets : How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway

Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; Cunningham, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economics has long studied how consumers respond to the disclosure of information about firms. We study a case in which the disclosed information is unrelated to the product or firm leadership, but which could still potentially affect consumer patronage through the mechanism of repugnance, as...

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Consumer Sentiment Towards Asians in the Early Days of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Guryan, Jonathan; Park, Kyung H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We revisit the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic to examine whether restaurant foot traffic reveals changes in sentiment towards ethnic groups. Our findings show reduced demand for dining at Asian restaurants located inside Asian enclaves, while outside enclaves, the decline in visits to...

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Dining Out as Cultural Trade

Waldfogel, Joel - 2019

most popular cuisines are Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and American. Third, excluding fast food, the largest net …

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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations

Fisman, Raymond - 2014

relative declines during each event window; a symmetric effect is observed for Chinese companies with high Japanese exposure …. The effect on Japanese companies is more pronounced for those operating in industries dominated by Chinese state …-owned enterprises, while firms with high Chinese employment experience lower declines. These results emphasize the role of countries …

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S....

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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2012

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets … instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by industry to other high-income countries. Rising exposure increases …

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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...

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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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