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will be net exporters in scale-intensive industries. The hypotheses are empirically tested by studying the trade of each …
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-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup … zero-sum welfare effects similar to implicit tariffs that tilt the terms of trade in favor of countries exporting high … compile new data on global profit ownership. Our findings reveal that trade has greatly reshaped the global incidence of …
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Are home and foreign products equally close substitutes? Our study uses highly disaggregated data to investigate the home preference bias in the Swedish fabricated metals sector, which appears to be declining.
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There are two principal theories of why countries trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet … structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing returns model of economic geography featuring "home market …" effects with that of Heckscher-Ohlin. We employ these trade models to account for the structure of OECD manufacturing …
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specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be produced near the source of final demand, where wages …
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This paper develops a quantitative, multi-country model of endogenous growth, international trade, and international … about and applying research previously conducted abroad. The effect of trade barriers on the level and dispersion of income … across countries is found to be larger than would be predicted by a static trade model, and the effect of access to …
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In this paper, I empirically examine the non-monotonic relationship between openness and within-group wage inequality predicted by  Helpman et al. (2010) using a panel data for the US, 1983–2005. Within-group wage inequality is measured for each industry and matched with exports. It can be...
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In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could have been a factor behind the emergence of greater inequalities in …
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This paper presents a new method that estimates the relative seller-concentration of an industry over both domestic and foreign sellers in 14 OECD countries, on the basis of a joint Structure-Performance and Brander-Krugman type model. Results suggest that overall seller-concentration is...
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domestic profits for a large sample of U.S. manufacturing industries. In our model, trade barriers alter the ability of … domestic market structure to influence domestic performance. The results indicate that trade flows behave as expected in …
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