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strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior …, we find that trade exposed electoral districts simultaneously exhibit growing ideological polarization in some domains …-meaning expanding support for both strong-left and strong-right views-and pure rightward shifts in others. Specifically, trade …
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exporting and growth performance in Kenya using time series data. Despite trade liberalization and export promotion policies …
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We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …
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We formalize the GATT/WTO principle of reciprocity in workhorse quantitative trade models, characterizing reciprocal … tariff cuts that hold terms of trade fixed and investigating their labor-market impacts. We provide closed-form expressions …
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bilateral trade relation between Mexico and the United States from a value added perspective. Once we take into account that … at the sectoral level with significant differences between the gross and value added sectoral trade balances: an … improvement of most sectoral US trade balances, particularly for those sectors importing significant amounts of intermediate goods. …
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Could foreign direct investment (FDI) contribute to improving developing countries' participation in global value chains (GVC)? This is the main issue addressed in this paper. Indeed, FDI seems to be, at least theoretically, a mean to speed up developing countries' participation in GVCs in a...
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There is an emerging consensus among American politicians and many citizens that trade and globalization have … granted China “permanent normal trade relations” (PNTR) and China's 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) as key … there was a better trade policy choice in 2000 than PNTR and engagement with China more broadly. It assumes too much …
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the current slowdown in trade, which has been due to cyclical and structural factors such as the decline in productivity … and the maturation of global value chains. The rise in protectionism as measured by rising trade restrictiveness has not … impacted on trade, but political and policy uncertainty regarding the direction of trade policy seems to have begun to impact …
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We investigate the role of trade imbalances for the distributional consequences of globalization. We do so through the … lens of a quantitative, general equilibrium, multi-country, multi-sector model of trade with four key ingredients: (a …) workers with different levels of skills are organized into separate representative households; (b) endogenous trade imbalances …
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Trade Association (EFTA) signed with the EU in 1972. Later, Sweden signed to become a member of the European Economic Area …
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