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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Import Competition"”.
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Import Competition and Domestic Bankruptcy; The Impact of Industry Structure
… industries are often attributed to foreign competition.
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An Empirical Study of the Price Responsiveness of Domestically Produced Steel Products to Import Competition: 1954-1967
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The Impact of Import Competition from China on the Skill-Bias of Manufacturing Employment across South African Regions between 2001 and 2011
… and instrumenting for South African imports using changes in Chinese imports by other low- and middle-income countries. The data used in the current study is from the UN Comtrade as well as South African population census data from 1996, 2001 and 2011. This study makes two main …
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Essays on Applied Microeconomics
… chapter analyzes the labor market effects of import competition from high-wage countries on emerging economies. Though abundant evidence shows that import competition from low-wage countries decreases manufacturing employment and wages of high-wage countries, less is known about the reverse: …
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Patterns and determinants of Australia's international trade in textiles and clothing
… of factors including reductions in protection, import competition, shifts in consumer spending, and technological change. This thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of patterns and determinants of international trade in textiles and clothing (TAC) during the period 1965 to 1999.
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Essays in Empirical Economics
… countries. These results highlight the importance of improving access to high-income developing countries for the economic growth in developing countries. In the second essay, which is joint work with Felix Fosu, we study how exposure to imports affects firms' decisions to upgrading …
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The Effects of Trade Reform on Labour Mobility Across South African Local Labour Markets
… 1996 to 2011. Overall, tariff reductions on imports in SA has induced spatial reallocation of labour in SA with a dominant flow of labour from regions/sectors with characteristically high tariff reductions towards regions/sectors of low tariff reductions. Critically, the paper finds that pull …
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Essays on Firms in International Trade
… adjust their technology investment to foreign competition and demand, and how firm performance is affected by a global trade policy shock. And I investigate the dynamics of firms’ choices of invoicing currencies for exports over time. My first chapter studies how the choices of individual firms …
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The impact of item 807.0 of the tariff schedule of the United States: the case of the Costa Rican apparel industry
… and underdeveloped countries have increased competition in labor intensive industries. To remain cost competitive, U.S. firms have developed alternative production strategies such as relocating labor intensive processes in countries with lower wages and labor costs. This type of manufacturing …
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Essays on the functioning of housing and labor markets
… lending standards over time. I quantify the importance of an alternative hypothesis: later cohorts defaulted at higher rates in large part because house price declines left them more likely to have negative equity. Using loan-level data, I find that changing borrower and loan characteristics …
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Exchange rate economic exposure and hedging:the significance of currency options
… with costs in domestic currency, which faces competition from foreign firms in overseas markets and has a market share expansion objective. Within this framework, the hypothesis is established that economic exposure, portrayed in a diagram connecting export prices and real exchange rates, is …
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The political and economic influences on the Mexican Industrialization Program
… loss of competitiveness of US firms vis-á-vis import competition. US and Mexican tariff exemptions facilitated the relocation of labor-intensive assembly operations from the US to the Mexican border region. Critics have argued that arrangements of this type are quickly undermined by …
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International Trade in a Competitive World: Empirical Evidence from the UK
… variables. The third chapter focuses on the UK's imports of goods from China and investigates the impact of increasing Chinese import competition on local labour market outcomes in the UK. The results from the first chapter show that the gravity equation succeeds in explaining the determinants of …
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Empirical essays on economic globalization with heterogeneous producers
… and econometrically investigates the impact of import competition on the growth and survival of heterogeneous farms. The empirical results suggest that rising imports significantly hinders farm growth; however, the findings are less robust on farm survival. The work suggests that in a …
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Labor market adjustment to globalization, automation, and institutional reform
… Dorn, and Gordon Hanson) argues that Chinese import competition, which surged after 2000, was a major force behind both recent reductions in US manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium channels-weak overall job growth. Our central estimates …
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An Assessment of the Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the U.S. Textile Industry's Production Activities: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
… years of NAFTA, probably due to intensified import competition, fall of real output prices, and numerous mill closings. Overall, NAFTA is recognized as a short-term, transitional policy measure for the U.S. textile industry because of the limited importance of Mexico in U.S. textile trade, …
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Essays in International Economics and Macroeconomics
… macroeconomics. The first chapter emphasizes the importance of persistent heterogeneity across workers in the economy's adjustment to sectoral shocks. The second chapter explains the spatial concentration of non-tradable consumption services based on consumers' trip-chaining behavior, which …
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Essays on the Impact of Renegotiating Trade Agreements
… restructure in response to changing economic competition driven by trade agreements? 4. What is the impact of exchange rate movements (driven by the renegotiation of a trade agreement) on exporter prices and quantities, and are the effects heterogeneous across firms? 5. How important are firms …