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Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment
Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
indicates that strengthening a country's institutions decreases its pollution through relocating dirty industries abroad, though … increases pollution in other countries. Fifth, cross-country differences in the composition of output between clean and dirty … countries have relatively high pollution levels …
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Trade Liberalization and Pollution Havens
Ederington, Josh - 2004
a substantial reduction in U.S. pollution from 1978-94 due entirely to a shift in the composition of U.S. manufacturing ….S. manufacturing, has also occurred among U.S. imports. Second, we find no evidence that pollution-intensive industries have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468108
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Pollution and International Trade in Services
Levinson, Arik - 2009
small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air … relation to the environment, because services in general contribute relatively little to overall pollution, and those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463712
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Globalization and the Environment
Copeland, Brian Richard; Shapiro, Joseph S.; Taylor, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
depletion? How does globalization affect air and water pollution? Do trade and investment create a race to the bottom in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533346
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International Trade and Innovation
Akcigit, Ufuk; Melitz, Marc J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This chapter was prepared for the Handbook of International Economics (Vol. 5) edited by Gita Gopinath, Elhanan Helpman, and Kenneth Rogoff. We provide a review of the recent literature -- both theoretical and empirical -- analyzing the multi-dimensional connections between globalization and...
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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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Estimating Trade Flows : Trading Partners and Trading Volumes
Helpman, Elhanan - 2007
We develop a simple model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that is consistent with a number of stylized features of the data. In particular, the model predicts positive as well as zero trade flows across pairs of countries, and it allows the number of exporting firms to vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465729
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From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
Broda, Christian - 2006
the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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The Great Trade Collapse
Bems, Rudolfs - 2012
We survey recent literature on the causes of the collapse in international trade during the 2008-2009 global recession. We argue that the evidence points to the collapse in aggregate expenditure, concentrated on trade-intensive durable goods, as the main driver of the trade collapse. Inventory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460028
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antràs, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461566