We conduct a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to
foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally …

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

In response to China's burgeoning environmental pollution, since 2010, Chinese
policymakers have implemented a low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCP) and expanded the …

Emissions depletion through pro-environmental interventions by top emitters like China has
profound significance in improving the atmosphere's cumulative carbon efficiency. China's …

This paper quantifies drain from the global South through unequal exchange since 1960.
According to our primary method, which relies on exchange-rate differentials, we find that in …

An Advanced Guide to Trade Policy Analysis is a follow up to A Practical Guide to Trade
Policy Analysis. The Advanced Guide provides the most recent tools for analysis of trade …

Industrial policy is tainted with bad reputation among policymakers and academics and is
often viewed as the road to perdition for developing economies. Yet the success of the Asian …

We study the effects of becoming a supplier to multinational corporations (MNCs) using tax
data tracking firm-to-firm transactions in Costa Rica. Event study estimates reveal that …

We describe the theory and practice of real GDP comparisons across countries and over
time. Version 8 of the Penn World Table expands on previous versions in three respects …

We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which firms self-select into
importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical …