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New at JIE: "The local-area incidence of exporting" by Christoph E. Boehm, Aaron Flaaen, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Jan Schlupp
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New at JIE: "Europe falling behind: Structural transformation and labor productivity growth differences between Europe and the U.S" by Cesare Buiatti, Joao B. Duarte (@JoaoBDuart3), Luis Felipe Sáenz
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Europe caught up to U.S. labor productivity by 1995, then fell back to 86% by 2019. Authors' GE model with Baumol cost disease non-homothetic preferences shows labor reallocation into low-productivity services drives the reversal — a 5× bigger drag than in the U.S.
The Journal of International Economics is pleased to announce that the Bhagwati Prize for the best paper in International Trade has been awarded to “Robots, Tasks, and Trade,” by Paulo Bastos, Bob Rijkers, and Erhan Artuc. Congratulations!
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Using a dataset covering 30 economies, authors show that commodity and oil prices play a critical role in propagating US monetary policy to global headline inflation, generating predominantly deflationary effects.
New at JIE: "Agricultural imports, labor mobility, and welfare" by Guanzu Ding, Haichao Fan, Rui Li, Huanhuan Wang, Xican Xi
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This paper provides a historical account of central bank cross-border liquidity lines. It shows that a country can indirectly access foreign liquidity even without a direct line to the source. These indirect connections have a large impact on CIP deviations and FX reserves.
New at JIE: "Estimating export-productivity cutoff contours with profit data: A novel threshold estimation approach" by Peter H. Egger, Yulong Wang
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We show that globalization widens the gender gap in mental health: when Danish firms trade across time zones, female workers become more likely to take antidepressants relative to men, particularly when college educated and younger. Effects are 3-4x larger for single mothers.
New at JIE: "Multinational investment activity under policy uncertainty in host and competing countries" by Daisoon Kim (@DaisoonKim), Sunhyung Lee
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The paper examines how economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in host and competing countries reshapes U.S. multinationals’ greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI).