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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our framework highlights a number of novel results. First, standardization is … standardization rate (and of competition). Second, we characterize the growth and welfare maximizing speed of standardization. We show …
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Exporting from China : The Determinants of Trade Status
Cooper, Russell - 2020
This paper studies the exporting decision of Chinese manufacturing firms. The economic framework stresses the dynamic decision by both state controlled and private entities to export in a model with labor adjustment costs. In this complex environment, a simple decision rule whereby export status...
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International Standards and International Trade : Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion
Clougherty, Joseph A. - 2012
methodological challenges by measuring standardization via national penetration of ISO 9000, allowing standardization to manifest via …-signaling augmenting country-pair trade. Yet, ISO-rich nations (most notably European) benefit the most from standardization, while ISO …
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Counterfeit-Product Trade
Grossman, Gene M. - 1986
We analyze a two-country model of trade in both legitimate and counterfeit products. Domestic firms own trademarks and establish reputations for delivering high-quality products in a steady-state equilibrium. Foreign suppliers export legitimate low-quality merchandise and counterfeits of...
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Trade and Structural Interdependence Between the U.S. and the NICs
Branson, William H. - 1984
During the decade since 1973, the U.S. economy has become increasingly interdependent with the newly industrializing countries (NICs) among the developing countries. These countries have had high investment ratios to GNP, financed mainly by domestic saving, but also partly by foreign borrowing....
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The Pacific Basin in World Trade : Part II, Constant-Price Trade Matrices, 1955-1975
Hickman, Bert G. - 1977
This is the second of a sequence of papers on international flows of merchandise trade among fifteen Pacific Basin countries and between them and eleven regions in the Rest of the World. In the first paper in this sequence (Hickman, Kuroda and Lau (1977)) we presented annual data on bilateral...
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The Pacific Basin in World Trade : Part I, Current Price Trade Matrices, 1948-1975
Hickman, Bert G. - 1977
This is the first of a sequence of papers on international flows of merchandise trade among fifteen Pacific Basin countries and between them and eleven regions in the Rest of the World. The basic purpose of this report is to present and document annual data on bilateral flows of exports in...
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Trade Blocs and Trade Wars during the Interwar Period
Jacks, David S. - 2019
China- and US-centric trade blocs …
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-up Growth?
Romer, Paul M. - 2010
life expectancies in poor and rich countries began to converge. Another example comes from China, where authorities …
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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
Huberman, Michael - 2009
The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
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