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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...
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of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …
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Three features of China's trade patterns suggest that elements beyond factor abundance explain its export performance … high sophistication of China's exports. We show that FDI liberalization endogenously introduces Ricardian features to an … otherwise standard endowment-based trade model, strengthening China's natural comparative advantage in labour-intensive products …
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The aim of this paper is to take a structured approach at estimating the coefficients of factors explaining movements of the labour share across countries. In particular, we focus on proper dynamic specification and test the validity of the homogeneity assumption of slope coefficients frequently...
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of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …
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Chinese firms faced an all-around trade liberalization process during the early 2000s: lower barriers from other countries on Chinese goods, and lower Chinese barriers on other countries' goods and inputs. Using novel firm-level tariff data for trading Chinese manufacturing firms, this paper...
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Chinese firms faced an all-around trade liberalization process during the early 2000s: lower barriers from other countries on Chinese goods, and lower Chinese barriers on other countries' goods and inputs. Using novel firm-level tariff data for trading Chinese manufacturing firms, this paper...
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produce more, and to demand more high-quality workers. The expansion of output-schedules crowds out the production of small …
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additional production to the other country at reduced prices to artificially inflate domestic prices. This results in a spillover …
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Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
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