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We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate …
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tariff in either sector boosts the size and productivity of that sector, raising welfare. While these forces are reinforced … potential productivity benefits. The welfare benefits of final-good tariffs thus tend to be larger, with the optimal degree of … tariff escalation increasing in the extent of downstream returns to scale. A quantitative evaluation of the US-China trade …
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estimates of the trade elasticity. We use data on US imports and trade policy from 1974-2017 for China and Vietnam …
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We use the dynamics of U.S. imports across goods in the period around the U.S.-China trade war with a model of exporter … China would face Non-Normal Trade Relations tariffs in the future. Our findings imply that the expected mean future U ….S. tariff on China rose more under President Biden than under President Trump. We also show that the trade response to the trade …
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This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyze the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
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our theoretical results to China's 2001 WTO accession, we find that China's tariff reductions exceeded reciprocity norms …, increasing real incomes but amplifying the manufacturing employment dislocation - the China Shock - in the United States and …
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We quantify and explain the firm responses and worker impacts of foreign demand shocks to domestic production networks. To capture that firms can be indirectly exposed to such shocks by buying from or selling to domestic firms that import or export, we use Belgian data with information on both...
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International transactions are costly because they require investments in logistics, contracts, and the acquisition of local institutional knowledge. We posit that a portion of the fixed costs of entering a specific export market can be used toward costs of acquiring imports from that same...
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and chemical substitution properties of REEs, we show that the introduction of REE export restrictions by China led to a … global surge in innovation and exports in REE-intensive downstream sectors outside of China. To rationalize these findings …
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I study how people understand and reason about trade and which factors shape their views on trade policy. I design and run large-scale surveys and experiments in the U.S. to elicit respondents' knowledge and understanding of trade. I also ask about their perceived economic gains and...
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