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The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations
Social Science Research Network, 2021 The US-China trade war created net export opportunities rather than simply shifting trade across destinations. Many “bystander” countries grew their exports of taxed products into the rest of the world (excluding the United States and China).
Pablo D. Fajgelbaum +4 more
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Tariff Pass-Through at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from US Trade Policy
American Economic Review: Insights, 2019 We use microdata collected at the border and the store to characterize the price impact of recent US trade policy on importers, exporters, and consumers. At the border, import tariff pass-through is much higher than exchange rate pass-through.
Alberto Cavallo +3 more
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The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation
The American Economic Review, 2023 We examine international regulatory agreements that are negotiated under lobbying pressures from producer groups. The way in which lobbying influences the cooperative setting of regulatory policies, as well as the welfare impacts of international ...
G. Maggi, Ralph Ossa
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The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities
Social Science Research Network, 2020 When countries change most favored nation (MFN) tariffs, partners that trade on MFN terms experience plausibly exogenous tariff changes. Using this variation, we estimate the trade elasticity at short and long horizons with local projections.
Christoph E. Boehm +2 more
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Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States
Social Science Research NetworkIn trade models with scale economies, import liberalization reduces exports within industries by shrinking real market potential. We find this export destruction mechanism reduced US export growth following the permanent normalization of trade relations ...
Holger Breinlich +3 more
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The Impact of US-China Trade War on China’s Exports: Evidence From Difference-in-Differences Model
SAGE OpenThis study examines the impact of the US-China trade war on Chinese exports. Using the monthly export data from January 2017 to October 2022 with a Difference-in-Differences (DID) model, our findings show: First, before the trade war, export trends in ...
Ting Yang, W. Lau, E. Bahri
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Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs
Social Science Research NetworkPresident George W. Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local ...
James Lake, Ding Liu
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Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis
The American Economic ReviewEconomists routinely make functional form assumptions on demand curves to derive welfare conclusions. How sensitive are these conclusions to such assumptions? In this paper, we develop robustness measures that quantify the extent to which the true demand
Zi Yang Kang, S. Vasserman
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The Production Relocation and Price Effects of US Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines
The American Economic Review, 2019 We estimate the price effect of US import restrictions on washers. The 2012 and 2016 antidumping duties against South Korea and China were accompanied by downward or minor price movements along with production relocation to other export platform ...
Aaron Flaaen, A. Hortaçsu, F. Tintelnot
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Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry
The American Economic ReviewCaptive finance subsidiaries create a channel for trade policy to affect consumer credit. Examining the impact of the Trump administration’s metal tariffs on captive automobile lenders, we find that consumers received higher interest rates from captive ...
K. Hankins, Morteza Momeni, David Sovich
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