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Did the 2018/19 US-China trade war trigger adjustment of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and nearshoring to Mexico? We address this question with confidential longitudinal firm-level trade data from Mexico that covers the universe of international trade transactions over 2015-2021. By merging the...
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The United States has been India’s most dominant trade partner for quite some time now. Given trade data are of mirror … between bilateral trade statistics of these two countries. India’s export values are consistently underreported while imports … data show both over and underreporting between 1960 – 2017. As India’s trade misreporting follows a systemic pattern, we …
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China’s unprecedented growth rate in the last decade is driven by its role as the global manufacturing powerhouse, but trade tensions with the U.S will affect economic growth for both superpowers. Meanwhile, several papers have sought to understand the impact of trade on innovation. A number...
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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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We develop a version of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) theorem with parametric technological differences for application to U.S. and U.K. data on the factor contents of trade, output, and consumption. We construct a matched set of input-output tables, consumption and trade vectors, and labor...
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I examine county-level outcomes of the 2018 U.S. House elections to investigate whether voters electorally responded to the economic impacts of the trade war tariffs in 2018. I find causal evidence that votes for the incumbent president's party (Republican) increased in counties that benefited...
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This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It first describes the...
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We use Chinese customs data to show that unofficial non-tariff barriers were responsible for 50\% of the overall reduction in Chinese imports from the U.S. during the height of the U.S.-China trade war in 2018 and 2019. We infer non-tariff barriers from the change in imports of U.S. products...
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