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Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
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since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
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. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …
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Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import protection, and are commonly used by countries to promote targeted sectors. However, such policies can have significant impacts on sectors other than those targeted by the IPs,...
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This paper develops an elementary theory of global supply chains. We consider a world economy with an arbitrary number of countries, one factor of production, a continuum of intermediate goods, and one final good. Production of the final good is sequential and subject to mistakes. In the unique...
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This paper proposes a framework for gross exports accounting that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double counted terms. By identifying which parts of the official trade data are double counted and the sources of the double...
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China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in … during the post globalization period (2003-2019) increased by 11.5% of the corresponding pre-globalization period (1984 … contrast, following globalization, the average aggregate domestic profitability of US firms remained flat, and firms employed …
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We develop a Ricardian model of trade in which countries innovate ideas that diffuse across the globe. In this model, the forces of innovation and diffusion combine to shape trade substitution patterns. Innovation makes a country technologically distinct, reducing their substitutability with...
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Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …
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This paper analyzes the potential effect of global market competition on inflation dynamics. It does so through the lens of the Calvo model of staggered price-setting, which implies that inflation depends on expected future inflation and a measure of marginal costs. I modify the assumption of a...
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