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gain due to merchandise exports was 3.7 million jobs. In comparison, U.S. merchandise imports from China led to reduced … from China over 1995-2011 created net demand for about 1.7 million jobs. Comparing the growth of U.S. merchandise exports …
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Grain shippers and political figures in North Dakota and nearby states have voiced concern that the dramatic increases in shipments of crude oil by rail have caused service delays and higher costs. We investigate the potential impact of crude shipments on grain markets accounting for harvest...
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Export taxes, despite being applied by several countries, have not received the same scrutiny in multilateral trade negotiations as other trade barriers. This work seeks to provide more detail into the linkages between export taxes, trade, food prices, and poverty in the agriculture sector. We...
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This paper explores the effects of relative food prices on body weight and body fat over time in China. We study a … cohort of 15,000 adults from over 200 communities in China, using the longitudinal China Health and Nutrition Survey (1991 …
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Biofuel production is being promoted through various policies such as mandates and tax credits. This paper uses a dynamic, spatial, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), to estimate the effects of these policies on cropland allocation, food and...
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In recent years, large fluctuations in world food prices have renewed interest in the question of how monetary policy in small open economies should react to imported price shocks. We address this issue in an open economy setting similar to previous ones except that food plays a distinctive role...
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This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … Portuguese firms faced Chinese import competition, based on firm product mix and distribution of sales across countries. We find …
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The 'China shock' operated in part through the housing market, and that is an important reason why the China shock was … as big as it was. If housing prices had not responded at all to the China shock, then the total employment effect of the … China shock would have been reduced by more than one-half. Housing prices in the United States did respond to the China …
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In the two decades straddling China's WTO accession, the China Shock, i.e. the rapid trade integration of China in the … about the extent of China Shock's repercussions in their district at the time when they voted on China's Normal Trade … U.S. House of Representatives on China's Normal Trade Relations status, we formally test what information politicians …
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census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms …
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