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voters who are aligned with pro-FTA political candidates. We find that import competition plays a role in explaining votes …
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Supply chain problems, previously relegated to specialized journals, now appear in G7 Leaders' Communiqués. Our paper looks at three core elements of the problems: measurement of the links that expose supply chains to disruptions, the nature of the shocks that cause the disruptions, and the...
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Perceptions of global supply chains (GSCs) have shifted in recent years from a positive to a more cautious view. Standard GSC measures have mostly not adapted to this change as they focus on participation in, rather than exposure to, foreign supply chains. This paper presents the tools necessary...
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We estimate the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on CES import price indices, focusing on the implications of … U.K. import price indices by raising the prices of existing products and by reducing product variety from the E.U. We … find evidence that the risk of higher import protection from the 2016 referendum increased current import price indices by …
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We use the dynamics of U.S. imports across goods in the period around the U.S.-China trade war with a model of exporter dynamics to estimate the dynamic path of the probability of transiting between Normal Trade Relations and a trade war state. We find (i) there was no increase in the likelihood...
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and … records, we find strong evidence that congressional districts exposed to larger increases in import penetration …
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We generalize the closed-economy neoclassical growth model (CNGM) to allow for costly goods trade and capital flows with imperfect substitutability between countries. We develop a tractable, multi-country, quantitative model that matches key features of the observed data (e.g., gravity equations...
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China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in …
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This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current structure of global supply chain networks. Using an instrumental variable strategy, combined with a novel dataset that links firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US...
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factors specific to export and import-competing sectors respectively. Consistent with the post-Civil War Era of Restriction …
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