Does Trade Related Sectoral Infrastructure Make Chinese Exports More Sophisticated and Diversified?

Quality Selection, Chinese Exports and Theories of Heterogeneous Firm Trade

Recent empirical and theoretical studies have identified product quality as an important determinant of bilateral trade flows. Yet relatively little is understood about the relationship between the characteristics of the export market and the quality of products. In this paper we examine this link using Chinese data. We find evidence that product unit values vary with standard gravity variables...

How Does California Make Its Infrastructure Decisions?

California’s history, landscape, and identity have been marked indelibly by its vast and sometimes controversial infrastructure. Over the last decade, however, the state has replenished and repaired that infrastructure at an annual rate of less than 1 percent. As a result, identified needs now exceed available resources. In response to this problem, the governor has charged the Commission on Bu...

Does tougher enforcement make drugs more expensive?

AIMS To review empirical research that seeks to relate marginal increases in enforcement against the supply of illicit drugs to changes in drug prices at the level of the drug supply system being targeted. METHOD Review of empirical studies. FINDINGS Although the fact of prohibition itself raises prices far above those likely to pertain in legal markets, there is little evidence that raisin...

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Does More International Trade Openness Worsen Inequality

Does freer trade increase income inequality within countries, perhaps sufficiently to offset any benefits to the poor from higher overall per capita income? Figure 4 suggests that there is no simple association between changes in trade openness and changes in inequality. Certainly there are many well known cases of countries where inequality has risen as they became more integrated into the wor...