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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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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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understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … effects, it appears to have significantly suppressed overall U.S. job growth. We apply industry-level and local labor market …
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We present estimates of 4 and 8 firm concentration ratios by industry and in weighted aggregate form for the … and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …
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This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two …
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Recent discoveries in behavioral economics have led to important new insights concerning what can happen in markets. Such gains in knowledge have come primarily via laboratory experiments--a missing piece of the puzzle in many cases is parallel evidence drawn from naturally-occurring field...
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We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity estimates for China's manufacturing …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of China's growth on developing countries that specialize in manufacturing. Over … 2000-2005, manufacturing accounted for 32% of China's GDP and 89% of its merchandise exports, making it more specialized in … the countries most exposed to the adverse consequences of China's export growth. Our results suggest that had China …
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We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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This paper incorporates firm-level distortions into a Melitz model and characterizes welfare under misallocation. We derive an analogue to the well-known ACR result in an economy with distortions. We highlight a channel through which trade can reduce welfare by exacerbating misallocation. A key...
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