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International trade became much less multilateral during the 1930s. Previous studies, looking at aggregate trade flows, have argued that discriminatory trade policies had comparatively little to do with this. Using highly disaggregated information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find...
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productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable …
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This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time …
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Urban economies are often heavily reliant on a small number of dominant industries, leaving them vulnerable to negative industry-specific shocks. This paper analyzes the long-run impacts of one such event: the large, temporary, and industry-specific shock to the British cotton textile industry...
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of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm …We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry …
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This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontal-ness and vertical-ness of affiliates based on Yeaple's complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontal-ness is measured as affiliates' local sales share while their vertical-ness is measures as their share of...
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while …
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their mode of export - either directly or indirectly through an intermediary. The model predicts that intermediaries will be …
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The microdata underlying U.S. import and export price indexes exhibit frequent product turnover and highly rigid prices … "product replacement bias" and quantify its importance using U.S. microdata on import and export prices. We show that …, accounting for product replacement bias, long-run exchange rate "pass-through" into U.S. import and export price indexes is …
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and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer … international trade and the importance of foreign ownership for firms' export and import decisions …
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