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The Trade Impact of China on EMU : is it Even Across Members?

Mikkelsen, Uffe - 2012

countries. Simulations on the impact of productivity shocks in Chinese textiles and machinery suggest that the required …

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Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries : Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility

Saito, Mika - 2015

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

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Quantifying the Spillovers from China Rebalancing Using a Multi-Sector Ricardian Trade Model

Mano, Rui C. - 2017

This paper assesses the spillovers from different facets of China rebalancing using a calibrated Ricardian trade model that includes 41 economies, each consisting of 34 sectors. We find that China's move up the value chain in particular has the potential for significant spillovers - on the one...

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Technological Changes, Offshoring, and the Labor Share

Lian, Weicheng - 2019

Existing studies on the downward trend in the labor share of income mostly focus on changeswithin individual countries. I document, however, that half of the global decline in the laborshare of income can be traced to the relocation of activities between countries. I develop atwo-country model...

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Fragmentation in Global Trade : Accounting for Commodities

Bolhuis, Marijn; Chen, Jiaqian; Kett, Benjamin - 2023

We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade fragmentation scenarios in a new multi-country, multi-sector,...

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Global Value Chains and Productivity : Micro Evidence from Estonia

Banh, Hang - 2020

have also contributed to increasing productivity and long-term growth. We explore empirically the impact of GVC … participation on productivity in Estonia using firm-level data from 2000 to 2016. We find that higher GVC participation at the … industry level significantly boosts productivity at both the industry and the firm level. Frontier firms, large firms, and …

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Sectoral Impact and Propagation of Weather Shocks

Zappalà, Guglielmo - 2023

Local weather shocks have been shown to affect local economic output, however, little is known about their propagation through production networks. Using a six-sector global dataset over the past fifty years, this paper examines the effect of weather fluctuations and extreme weather events on...

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Rent Seeking

Chakraborty, Shankha; Dabla-Norris, Era - 2021

are determined by the initial distribution of income and wealth. When individuals also differ in their productivity, not …

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The Global Welfare Impact of China : Trade Integration and Technological Change

Di Giovanni, Julian - 2012

Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China …'s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …

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Identifying Structural Reform Gaps in Emerging Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Funke, Norbert - 2017

Using data from the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report as an example, this paper compares structural indicators for 25 countries in Emerging Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia with a generic country with similar characteristics that is 40 percent richer as well as a country...

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