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Manufactured Crisis : 'Deindustrialization,' Free Markets, and National Security

Lincicome, Scott - 2021

Both the American left and right often use “national security” to justify sweeping proposals for new U.S. protectionism and industrial policy. “Free markets” and a lack of government support for the manufacturing sector are alleged to have crippled the U.S. defense industrial base’s...

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The Winners and Losers of Brexit : A UK Manufacturing Sector Analysis

Farid, Moatazbellah - 2021

I analyse the effect of Brexit vote on UK manufacturing divisions using a synthetic control methodology. My results show that in the three years following the Brexit referendum, the UK total manufacturing sector's employment decreased by an average of 1.7% per quarter. When investigating the...

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Competition in the Service Sector and the Performances of Manufacturing Firms : Does Liberalization Matter?

Forlani, Emanuele - 2010

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...

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Multi-Product Exporters and the Margins of Trade

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2014

This paper examine multi-product exporters in Belgium, considering their importance and the relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity. We employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin adjustments of trade. Relatively few exporting firms...

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Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s

Calderón-Madrid, Ángel; Voicu, Alexandru - 2021

This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and patterns of job creation and destruction across their...

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Long-run effects of the Korea-China Free-Trade Agreement

Kim, Sunghyun; Shiker, Serge - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 19 (2015) 2, pp. 117-142

This paper uses a 53-country 15-industry computable general equilibrium model of trade to analyze the effects of the … Yaylaci and Shikher (2014) which uses the Eaton-Kortum methodology to explain intra-industry trade. The model predicts that … China by 0.55%. The model also predicts significant reallocation of employment across industries with the Food industry in …

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Services and performance of the Indian economy : analysis and policy options

Benz, Sebastian; Khanna, Anupam; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2017

This paper highlights India’s unique services export led growth path. Observing that Indian business services have helped manufacturers all over the world to become more efficient and productive, it raises the question how Indian business services can do the same for local manufacturers and...

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Pattern and determinants of intra-industry trade in Australian manufacturing

Sharma, Kishor - 1999

This paper the presents pattern and determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in Australian manufacturing since the …-oriented policy. Industry level analysis indicates that industries which experienced a sharp fall in protection are the industries … investigated. Results indicate that intra-industry trade is positively related to product differentiation and scale economies, and …

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Efficiency, innovation, and imported inputs : determinants of export performance among Indian manufacturing firms

Grazzi, Marco; Mathew, Nanditha; Moschella, Daniele - 2017

This paper investigates the determinants of export behavior among Indian manufacturing firms, focusing in particular on the role of technology, cost and imported intermediate inputs. Our evidence suggests that innovation, in particular R&D, positively affects both firms' probability to export...

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Multi-product exporters, carry-along trade and the margins of trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Van Beveren, Ilke; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2010 - This Version: September 2010

New empirical and theoretical work has highlighted the importance of multi-product firms in international tradeflows. We examine multi-product exporters in the small open economy of Belgium, considering their importance and the relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity,...

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