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Trade liberalization, wages, and specialization in China
Hong, Chang - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 26 (2012) 4, pp. 561-577
This paper studies the evolution of regional specialization in China in response to trade liberalization. Using a panel of Chinese export data at the detailed commodity level over the period of 1988–2006, we show that China’s regional specialization follows a U-shaped pattern: both the...
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Export Dynamism and Market Access
Mayer, Jörg - In: Journal of Economic Integration 19 (2004), pp. 289-316
Market access liberalization has influenced product-specific growth of world exports and contributed to the shift in … the structure of world exports of manufactures towards electrical and electronic goods (including parts and components … moving to full trade liberalization would lead to an increase in the share of agricultural products in total world trade by …
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Sequential Exporting
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Calvo Pardo, Hector F.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Many new exporters give up exporting very shortly, despite substantial entry costs; others shoot up foreign sales and expand to new destinations. We develop a model based on experimentation to rationalize these and other dynamic patterns of exporting firms. We posit that individual export...
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Input-trade liberalization, export prices and quality upgrading
Bas, Maria; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - In: Journal of International Economics 95 (2015) 2, pp. 250-262
from paying tariffs. Both imported input and export prices rise. The effect on export prices is specific to firms sourcing …
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India’s Import Tariff Evaluation during Recent Financial Crisis
Sinha, Priyanka; Bharti, Nalin - In: Foreign Trade Review 49 (2014) 1, pp. 45-93
import tariffs and making trade free. This empirical exercise compares import tariff in pre- and post-crisis. Trade …There are two different opinions about India’s import liberalization surfaced in the recent global financial crisis …-crisis of India’s import tariff liberalization through a set of indexes and graphs. India’s applied average tariff rates are …
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A simple model of quality heterogeneity and international trade
Dinopoulos, Elias; Unel, Bulent - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37 (2013) 1, pp. 68-83
This paper develops a trade model with firm-specific quality heterogeneity in markets where firms face the threat of imitation and engage in limit-pricing strategies. Firms producing high-quality (high-price) products export, whereas firms producing lower-quality (lower-price) products serve the...
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The new goods margin in Japanese–Chinese trade
Dalton, John T. - In: Japan and the World Economy 31 (2014) C, pp. 8-13
, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account …
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The market power of multinationals : a quantitative analysis of U.S. corporations in Brazil and Mexico
Connor, John M. - 1977
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Specialization, fragmentation, and factor intensities: evidence from chilean plant-level data
Chung, Chul; Deardorff, Alan V. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 41 (2008) 2, pp. 91-109
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on structural changes at the plant-level and industry-level. The traditional Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) model predicts an increase in capital-labor ratios in a labor abundant country after trade liberalization. This is in marked contrast to the...
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