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Trade wars and trade disputes: The role of equity and political support 贸易战和贸易争端:公平和政治支持的作用
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12742
Eddy Bekkers, Joseph F. Francois, Douglas R. Nelson, Hugo Rojas‐Romagosa
Recent theoretical and quantitative analysis of trade wars is grounded in a relatively narrow treatment of optimal tariff theory and noncooperative Nash equilibria. The lynchpin of this approach is the assumption that trade policy makers are rational and have a simple well‐established objective function to optimize. We argue that the preferred specification of this objective function ignores inequality at its peril. We work with a quantitative trade model, introducing a comprehensive tariff‐space grid search new to the literature. This allows us to explicitly check for the presence of multiple Nash outcomes. We show that including income inequality—a primary focus of the earlier literature—as a determinant of social welfare can substantially change noncooperative Nash outcomes. We also show that the optimal tariff of the US falls by half when the social welfare function includes inequality as an objective. Hence, the economic outcomes of actual trade wars may be very different from what recent estimates grounded in optimal tariff theory would suggest.
最近对贸易战的理论和定量分析是建立在对最优关税理论和非合作纳什均衡的相对狭隘的处理之上的。这种方法的关键在于假定贸易政策制定者是理性的,并且有一个简单的既定目标函数需要优化。我们认为,这种目标函数的首选规范忽视了不平等,这是非常危险的。我们使用一个定量贸易模型,在文献中引入了一种新的综合关税空间网格搜索。这使我们能够明确检查多重纳什结果的存在。我们表明,将收入不平等--早期文献的主要关注点--作为社会福利的决定因素,会大大改变非合作的纳什结果。我们还表明,当社会福利函数将不平等作为目标时,美国的最优关税会下降一半。因此,实际贸易战的经济结果可能与近期基于最优关税理论的估计结果大相径庭。
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Subsidized wages, small businesses, and exports: Evidence from the paycheck protection program 补贴工资、小企业和出口:来自工资保护计划的证据
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12748
Ali Enami, Sucharita Ghosh
The easily forgivable federal loans offered through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to offset the impact of the COVID‐19 recession provide a unique opportunity to investigate whether subsidizing the costs of labor for small firms can increase exports in the whole industry. The main eligibility rule to receive these loans, i.e., having less than 500 employees in 2019 and the size of loans, were dependent on the size of the firm prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic. This implies a plausibly exogenous variation in the size of the PPP loans across states and industries. We exploit this exogenous variation in the size of PPP loans and estimate a difference‐in‐differences model that allows for heterogenous treatment effect to measure the instantaneous and dynamic effects of these loans. We find that a 10% increase in the size of PPP loans in 2020 and 2021 leads to 0.27% and 0.37% increase in exports in a given state‐industry. The 2020 loans appear to have no lasting effect beyond the quarter they are awarded. The 2021 loans, however, displayed a more dynamic effect and a 10% increase in the size of these loans in one quarter would lead to 0.28% increase in the value of exports three quarters later. In addition to estimating the average effect of these loans, we show that the effects of the loans are significantly heterogeneous across industries and the per‐dollar effect of these loans decreases as the loan size (per employee) increases.
为抵消 COVID-19 经济衰退的影响,通过 "工资保护计划"(PPP)提供了可轻松免除的联邦贷款,这为研究补贴小企业劳动力成本是否能增加整个行业的出口提供了一个独特的机会。获得这些贷款的主要资格规则,即 2019 年员工人数少于 500 人和贷款规模,取决于 COVID-19 大流行之前的企业规模。这意味着各州和各行业的购买力平价贷款规模可能存在外生差异。我们利用 PPP 贷款规模的这种外生性差异,估计了一个允许异质性处理效应的差分模型,以衡量这些贷款的即时和动态效应。我们发现,2020 年和 2021 年购买力平价贷款规模每增加 10%,就会导致特定国家-行业的出口分别增加 0.27% 和 0.37%。2020 年的贷款在发放季度之后似乎没有持续影响。而 2021 年的贷款则显示出更大的动态效应,贷款规模在一个季度内增加 10%,将导致三个季度后出口额增加 0.28%。除了估算这些贷款的平均效应外,我们还表明,这些贷款的效应在不同行业之间具有显著的异质性,而且这些贷款的每美元效应会随着贷款规模(每名雇员)的增加而降低。
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ε$$ varepsilon $$‐ces preferences and trade ε$$ varepsilon $$-ces 偏好与贸易
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12749
Kristian Behrens, Sergei Kichko, Philip Ushchev
Kimball preferences possess properties that make them a powerful tool for multi‐sector applied general equilibrium. While they are homothetic, they also can be made arbitrarily close to constant elasticity of substitution (ces) preferences, thereby sharing some of their properties ‘by continuity’. We develop a trade model which brings together traded and nontraded sectors, variable markups, and costly trade for this rich class of homothetic preferences. We characterize the consequences—for both sectors—of trade liberalization in traded sector. Numerical simulations for a calibrated version of the model reveal that the elasticity of utility with respect to trade costs is about 25%–27%, depending on whether traded and nontrade goods are complements or substitutes.
金博尔偏好的特性使其成为多部门应用一般均衡的有力工具。虽然它们是同向的,但它们也可以任意地接近恒定替代弹性(ces)偏好,从而 "通过连续性 "分享它们的某些特性。我们建立了一个贸易模型,将贸易部门和非贸易部门、可变加价和代价高昂的贸易结合在一起,用于研究这一类丰富的同调偏好。我们描述了贸易自由化对贸易部门和非贸易部门的影响。对该模型的校准版本进行的数字模拟显示,效用与贸易成本的弹性约为 25%-27%,这取决于贸易产品和非贸易产品是互补品还是替代品。
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Double whammy? Trade and automation in engineering services 双重打击?工程服务中的贸易和自动化
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-03-05 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12743
Franziska Klügl, Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
This paper studies the role of trade for the joint uptake of AI-enabled automation in manufacturing and engineering. It develops an agent-based model (ABM) where the agents are heterogeneous manufacturers and engineering firms. The ABM features two technology-related business models: engineering as a face-to-face consultancy service and engineering as automated software. The software adoption rate follows an S-shaped curve for manufacturers and a boom and bust cycle for engineers. In the early phase, shortage of engineers constrains AI uptake, while engineers become abundant when AI is fully adopted. Trade affects the cut-off productivity level at which manufacturers switch technology, the shape of the adoption rate curve, and the incentives for engineers to develop software. Bulky transactions and different productivity distributions across countries are drivers of trade in their own right.
本文研究了贸易对制造业和工程业共同采用人工智能自动化的作用。它建立了一个基于代理的模型(ABM),其中的代理是异质制造商和工程公司。该模型有两种与技术相关的商业模式:工程是一种面对面的咨询服务,工程是一种自动化软件。制造商的软件采用率呈 S 型曲线,而工程师的软件采用率则呈繁荣与萧条循环。在早期阶段,工程师的短缺制约了人工智能的采用,而当人工智能被全面采用时,工程师就会变得非常充裕。贸易会影响制造商转换技术的生产率临界水平、采用率曲线的形状以及工程师开发软件的积极性。大宗交易和各国不同的生产力分布本身就是贸易的驱动力。
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Barrier or opportunity? How trade regulations shape Colombian firms' export strategies 障碍还是机遇?贸易法规如何影响哥伦比亚企业的出口战略
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12739
Samuel Rosenow
Firms increasingly have to contend with trade regulations to access foreign markets. We quantify their relative importance and the heterogeneous effects for Colombians firms exporting to Latin America between 2007 and 2017, focusing on specific types and channels. Using panel evidence from a firm‐level gravity model with a difference‐in‐differences identification strategy, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and quantity control measures both decrease trade on average. Other non‐tariff measures and tariffs play a minor role. At its core, TBT and quantity measures reallocate trade from small to big firms. The same mechanism benefits firms participating in global value chains. However, quantity controls make it more likely that big firm will leave export markets to the benefit of smaller ones. Our results control for the endogeneity of trade regulations and are robust to the use of different samples and measures of firm size.
企业要进入国外市场,越来越多地需要与贸易法规打交道。我们对 2007 年至 2017 年间哥伦比亚企业出口到拉丁美洲的贸易法规的相对重要性和异质性影响进行了量化,重点关注特定类型和渠道。通过采用差分识别策略的企业级引力模型得出的面板证据显示,技术性贸易壁垒(TBTs)和数量控制措施都会平均减少贸易量。其他非关税措施和关税的作用较小。技术性贸易壁垒和数量控制措施的核心是将贸易从小企业重新分配给大企业。同样的机制也有利于参与全球价值链的企业。然而,数量控制使大公司更有可能离开出口市场,而小公司则从中受益。我们的结果控制了贸易法规的内生性,并且在使用不同的样本和企业规模衡量标准时也是稳健的。
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Patterns of regulatory heterogeneity in international trade: Intensity, coverage, and structure 国际贸易中的监管异质性模式:强度、覆盖面和结构
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12736
Irene Garcés, Achim Vogt
With falling tariffs the role of regulatory heterogeneity in international trade has become central in recent debates about regional integration and trade costs. In describing the NTM incidence few studies explicitly take into account the specific nature of underlying regulatory differences. We propose distinguishing regulatory heterogeneity with respect to the intensity, coverage, and structure of regulations, and present indicators reflecting each one of these dimensions. Enabled by detailed product‐level regulatory data based on coded reviews of national legislation, we illustrate the different channels of regulatory heterogeneity on the country‐ and sector‐level. The findings motivate a separate treatment of the different heterogeneity dimensions in the assessment of non‐tariff measures in international trade.
随着关税的下降,国际贸易中监管差异的作用已成为近期关于区域一体化和贸易成本辩论的核心。在描述非关税措施发生率时,很少有研究明确考虑到潜在监管差异的具体性质。我们建议从监管的强度、覆盖面和结构方面区分监管异质性,并提出反映这些方面的指标。通过基于国家立法编码审查的详细产品层面监管数据,我们说明了国家和行业层面监管异质性的不同渠道。这些发现促使我们在评估国际贸易中的非关税措施时,对不同的异质性层面进行单独处理。
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Spatial spillovers in trade agreement memberships: Does institutional proximity matter? 贸易协定成员资格的空间溢出效应:机构邻近性重要吗?
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12740
Renliang Liu, Thanasis Stengos, Yiguo Sun
This paper examines spatial spillovers in the formation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) through a new channel of institutional proximity. Our dependent variable is the status of PTAs between country attributes within a country‐pair. The explanatory variable of interest is the status of PTAs in neighbouring country‐pairs that share proximity in institutional development. We consider democracy and economic freedom as the main aspects of institutions, and use both as the fundamental components of institutional distance between country‐pairs. Employing a spatial econometric method, we find strong evidence of the institutional interdependence of PTAs: country‐pairs tend to influence each other's decision on the formation and the chosen type of PTAs (i.e., deep or shallow), such a neighbourhood effect increases with institutional proximity and is more prominent for the decisions on the type of PTAs. The institutional spatial channel is robust to various robustness checks.
本文通过制度邻近性这一新渠道,研究了优惠贸易协定(PTAs)形成过程中的空间溢出效应。我们的因变量是国家对中国家属性之间的优惠贸易协定状况。我们感兴趣的解释变量是在制度发展方面具有相似性的相邻国家对的优惠贸易协定状况。我们将民主和经济自由视为制度的主要方面,并将二者作为国家对之间制度距离的基本组成部分。利用空间计量经济学方法,我们发现了 PTA 在制度上相互依存的有力证据:国家对往往会影响彼此关于形成 PTA 和所选 PTA 类型(即深层或浅层)的决策,这种邻近效应会随着制度邻近性的增加而增加,并且在关于 PTA 类型的决策中更为突出。制度空间渠道在各种稳健性检验中都是稳健的。
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Gain without pain? Non-tariff measures, plant markup, and productivity 不劳而获?非关税措施、工厂加价和生产率
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12731
Massimiliano Calì, Marco Le Moglie, Giorgio Presidente
This paper extends the evidence on the impact of trade reforms on firms by focusing on non-tariff measures (NTMs), an increasingly important trade policy instrument in advanced and developing economies. We build a novel time-varying dataset on all NTMs applied to imported products by Indonesia and quantify the trade distortions they generate. We find that unlike tariffs, which reduce plants' productivity, NTMs do not significantly affect plants' performance. However, the most trade-reducing NTMs are associated with lower plant-level markups, which is consistent with the increase in the cost of imported inputs induced by these NTMs.
非关税措施是发达经济体和发展中经济体日益重要的贸易政策工具,本文通过关注非关税措施,扩展了贸易改革对企业影响的证据。我们建立了一个关于印尼对进口产品实施的所有非关税措施的新型时变数据集,并量化了这些措施造成的贸易扭曲。我们发现,关税会降低工厂的生产率,而非关税措施则不同,不会对工厂的绩效产生显著影响。然而,最能降低贸易的非关税措施却与较低的工厂加价率有关,这与这些非关税措施导致的进口投入成本增加是一致的。
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International trade and income distribution: The effect of corporate governance regimes 国际贸易与收入分配:公司治理制度的影响
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12728
Hartmut Egger, Peter H. Egger, Douglas Nelson
This paper introduces a model of corporate governance into the general oligopolistic equilibrium theory of international trade. Corporate governance defines the influence of workers and capital owners on manager contract and, through this contract, the scope of these two groups for subsequent rent extraction in the wage/employment negotiation between firms and unions. If capital owners have dictatorship over the manager contract, they can extract the full bargaining surplus and eliminate the union wage premium. If workers have dictatorship over the manager contract they can achieve a wage premium, driving the income of capital owners down to zero. In this setting, opening up to trade is to the detriment of the income group whose interests are decisive for the manager contract. This shows that distributional conflicts materializing from trade can be considerably different for countries with differing corporate governance regimes. Foreign investment allows capital owners in unionized industries to flee from disadvantageous corporate governance regimes at home, eliminating union wage premia and lowering manager remuneration in countries with corporate governance regimes that give workers dictatorship over manager contracts.
本文在国际贸易的一般寡头垄断均衡理论中引入了公司治理模型。公司治理界定了工人和资本所有者对经理合同的影响,并通过该合同界定了这两个群体在企业与工会之间的工资/就业谈判中的后续租金提取范围。如果资本所有者对经理合同拥有独裁权,他们就可以榨取全部谈判剩余,消除工会工资溢价。如果工人对经理合同拥有独裁权,他们就可以获得工资溢价,从而将资本所有者的收入降至零。在这种情况下,开放贸易会损害收入群体的利益,因为他们的利益对经理契约起着决定性作用。这表明,对于公司治理制度不同的国家来说,贸易带来的分配冲突可能大不相同。外商投资使工会化行业的资本所有者得以逃离国内不利的公司治理制度,从而消除了工会的工资溢价,并降低了那些公司治理制度赋予工人对经理合同的支配权的国家的经理薪酬。
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Central bank communication and expectations: Evidence for inflation-targeting economies 中央银行的沟通与预期:通货膨胀目标经济体的证据
IF 1 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-01-21 DOI: 10.1111/roie.12730
Magdalena Szyszko, Agata Kliber, Aleksandra Rutkowska, Mariusz Próchniak
We seek to investigate the effects of communication by central banks on professional and consumer inflation expectations. Accordingly, we investigate 12 small open economies implementing inflation targeting. The communication tone of the central banks is determined based on their post-decision releases. We use computational linguistics to quantify this factor. With regard to two subsamples that are identified based on the central bank's experience in inflation targeting, we estimate panel models while controlling for other prospective drivers of expectations. The communication tone of a central bank significantly affects the expectations of professional forecasters from economies with more experience in inflation targeting.
我们试图研究中央银行的沟通对专业人士和消费者通胀预期的影响。因此,我们对 12 个实施通胀目标制的小型开放经济体进行了调查。中央银行的沟通基调是根据其决策后发布的信息确定的。我们使用计算语言学来量化这一因素。对于根据中央银行的通胀目标经验确定的两个子样本,我们在控制其他预期驱动因素的同时对面板模型进行了估计。中央银行的沟通语气会显著影响通胀目标制经验更丰富的经济体的专业预测者的预期。
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