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Since its inception, supporters of the Jones Act have claimed that the law is essential to U.S. national security. Although indefensible on economic grounds, Jones Act advocates argue that its restrictions promote the development of both a U.S. merchant marine and shipbuilding and repair...
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In this paper we investigate whether multilateral trade liberalisation undermines or encourages preferential trade … liberalisation. We use highly disaggregated data at the tariff-line level and find an 'emulator effect' of multilateral trade … liberalisation on preferential trade agreements. Indeed, our regression results show that products for which the U.S. agreed to cut …
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environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … pairwise interregional trade across all 50 U.S. states, 26 traded and non-traded industries, labor as a mobile factor, and … matches the U.S. input-output matrix. Using data on trade flows by industry between states, as well as other regional and …
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, while world exports in current USD began to rebound from the collapse of trade during the Great Depression in 1933, world … even when the value of exports was measured in constant US gold dollars. These increases can be attributed to trade … increased in spite of the worldwide deflation, fall in income,and increases in trade costs and trade barriers. …
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Based on the conceptual results of Findlay, Grubert (1959) and Krugman (2000) we analyze the movement of the relative price of skill-intensive goods under skill-biased technological change and the countervailing effect of increasing world-wide supply of low-skilled-labor. While the labor supply...
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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...
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0.7, while import price changes that can be traced back to exchange rate movements of other trade partners only have … mild effects on US prices. Further analysis points to the importance of trade integration, variable markups, and demand …
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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...
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Are U.S. exports different from China's exports? If so, how? This paper attempts to answer this question, focusing on the quality, variety, and overlap of their products. Using product-level manufacturing import data from Japan, I find that the exports of China and the United States are similar...
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