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5% of productivity growth. There is a small negative effect of less than half a percent on employment when industries …
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China's exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the … competitive pressure may be increasingly felt outside labor-intensive industries. Using product-level data on exports from … significantly to raising the unit values of China's exports within a given product category. …
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China's exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the … competitive pressure may be increasingly felt outside labor-intensive industries. Using product-level data on exports from … significantly to raising the unit values of China's exports within a given product category. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972729
. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the removal of externally imposed quotas. Both the surge …
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Trade globalization may affect corporate transparency via multiple channels, with potentially opposite signs. We aim to empirically disentangle these channels by tracking evolution of corporate transparency for 4061 listed firms in tradable sectors in 49 countries during 1992–2005. By using...
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This paper generalizes the gross exports accounting framework at the country level, recently proposed by Koopman, Wang …, and Wei (2014), to one that decomposes gross trade flows (for both exports and imports) at the sector, bilateral, or …
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The real effective exchange rate (REER) is one of the most cited statistical constructs in international macroeconomics. With the rising importance of offshoring and outsourcing, the standard measures are increasingly flawed. In addition, because different sectors within a country may...
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This paper studies the value of external commitment to policy reforms in the case of WTO/GATT accessions. The accessions often entail reforms that go beyond narrowly defined trade liberalization, and have to overcome fierce resistance in the acceding countries, as reflected in protracted...
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economies. For many policy questions, it is crucial to know the extent of foreign value added (FVA) in exports. We review a … general formula in Koopman, Wang and Wei (2008) for computing domestic and foreign contents when processing exports are … exports by the PRC is about 50%. There are also interesting variations across sectors. Those sectors that are likely labeled …
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While new conventional wisdom warns that developing countries should be aware of the risks of premature capital account liberalization, the costs of not removing exchange controls have received much less attention. This paper investigates the negative effects of exchange controls on trade. To...
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