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Specialization, Diversity, and Indian Manufacturing Growth

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

This paper examines the specialization and diversity of manufacturing industries within Indian districts. Prior to … India's recent economic growth and liberalization, specialization levels in 1989 were substantially higher than similar … metrics calculated for the United States. From 1989 to 2010, average specialization levels for Indian districts declined to a …

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Does Vertical Specialization Increase Productivity?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of global value chain participation on productivity, using data on trade in value added from the World Input-Output Database. The results based on a panel estimation covering 13 sectors in 40 countries over 15 years suggest that participation in global value...

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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets

Espitia, Alvaro - 2020

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...

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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César - 2020

This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it jointly estimates the impact of different dimensions of trade integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade...

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Contractual Frictions and the Margins of Trade

Azomahou, Theophile T. - 2018

A growing body of work has shown that the quality of national institutions that enforce written contracts plays an important role in shaping a country's comparative advantage. Using highly disaggregated bilateral and unique harmonized firm-level trade data across a large number of countries,...

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The Intensive Margin in Trade

Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018

Is the variation in bilateral trade flows across countries primarily due to differences in the number of exporting firms (the extensive margin) or in the average size of an exporter (the intensive margin)? And how does this affect the estimation and quantitative implications of the Melitz (2003)...

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Measuring What Matters in Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade

Borin, Alessandro - 2019

The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...

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Robots, Tasks and Trade

Artuc, Erhan - 2019

This paper examines the effects of robotization on trade patterns, wages and welfare. It develops a Ricardian model with two-stage production and trade in intermediate and final goods in which robots can take over some tasks previously performed by humans in a subset of industries. An increase...

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The Global Trade Slowdown : Cyclical or Structural?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

explanation may lie in the slowing pace of international vertical specialization rather than increasing protection or the changing …

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The Rise of China and Labor Market Adjustments in Latin America

Artuc, Erhan - 2018

This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study proposes an index to measure the impact on trade, which suggests sizable effects, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index...

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