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International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations
Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...
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Commercial Rivalry as Seller Incidence Shifting : Non-parametric Accounting of the China Shock
Anderson, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Intense US-China commercial rivalry is quantified in this paper with novel non-parametric relative resistance … sufficient statistics. The accounting method minimizes the demand specification error variance in revealed resistances. China …'s manufacturing seller incidence falls (seller price rises) 7.6% yearly as China's sales share quadruples over 2000-14. US seller …
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Lobbying Behind the Frontier
Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616568
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Anti-Competitive and Rent-Shifting Aspects of Domestic-Content Provisions in Regional Trade Blocks
Lopez-de-Silane, Florencio - 1993
Regional trade agreements must specify domestic-content rules (rules of origin) that define the conditions under which a good qualifies as 'domestic' and so may be freely traded within the block. The paper analyzes such rules, focussing in particular on oligopolistic industries in which foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474433
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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
Dippel, Christian - 2017
Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455472
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Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? And if so, why? And what is next?
Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
competition from low-wage countries, especially China, laid the groundwork, but was not the catalyst for the reversal in attitudes … policy, export restrictions in particular, to halt China's technological development. The future of globalization is highly …
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Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era : A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages
Bonfatti, Roberto; Coşar, Kerem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The last two centuries witnessed the rise and fall of empires. We construct a model which rationalises this in terms of the changing trade gains from empires. In the model, empires are arrangements that reduce trade cost between an industrial metropole and the agricultural periphery. During...
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Goods and Factor Market Integration : A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017
The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454987
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, A. Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457086
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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-EMU Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the...
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