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The Costs of Rules of Origin in Apparel : African Preferential Exports to the United States and the European Union
Portugal-Perez, Alberto - 2010
The European Union and the United States offer, simultaneously, preferential market access to exports of a group of African countries. Although similar regarding the extent of preferences for apparel, a key sector for least developed countries, these agreements differ as regards rules of origin...
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What do we know about contracting out in the United States? : Evidence from household and establishment surveys
Dey, Matthew S.; Houseman, Susan N.; Polivka, Anne E. - 2009
trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in which it has grown, and the industries engaging in outsourcing for the … employment services sector, which has been a particularly important area of domestic outsourcing. In addition, we examine … domestic outsourcing and its implications for employment patterns and to inconsistencies across data sets in the information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921820
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What Do We Know About Contracting Out in the United States? Evidence from Household and Establishment Surveys
Dey, Matthew; Houseman, Susan N.; Polivka, Anne Elise - 2009
trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in which it has grown, and the industries engaging in outsourcing for the … employment services sector, which has been a particularly important area of domestic outsourcing. In addition, we examine … domestic outsourcing and its implications for employment patterns and to inconsistencies across data sets in the information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203751
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511759
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2015
Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision. This paper quantifies the effect of the...
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2012
We develop a new general equilibrium monopolistic competition model with variable demand elasticity, heterogeneous firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are all endogenously determined and respond to trade...
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Import liberalization as export destruction? : evidence from the United States
Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2022
How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US export growth following the permanent normalization of...
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ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship
Petri, Peter A. - 2013
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is strategically significant because of its size, dynamism, and role in the Asian economic and security architectures. This paper examines how ASEAN seeks to strengthen these assets through “centrality” in intraregional and external policy...
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A structural quantitative analysis of services trade de-liberalization
Blank, Sven; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2018
This paper suggests a quantifiable multi-sector-multi-country economic model of goods and services production and consumption. It calibrates overall (variable and fixed) costs to market-specific sales by sector and decomposes these costs into observable and unobservable components. In an...
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Determinants of firms' inputs sourcing choices : the role of institutional and regulatory factors
Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2018
choices of manufacturing firms established in the EU countries. To this purpose, we combine information on the ownership … findings indicate that manufacturing firms that source inputs intra-firm via foreign direct investment (FDI) across EU … manufacturing firms that source inputs at arm's length. The probability of integrating inputs by manufacturing firms across EU …
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