Estimates of the Trade and Welfare Effects of NAFTA

By Lorenzo Caliendo, F. Parro, Robert E. Lucas, Samuel Kortum, N. Stokey, Fernando Alvarez, Costas Arkolakis, K. Bagwell, Francesco Caselli, Thomas Chaney and 16 more. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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• The empirical landscape of trade policy (2016, background): “Blanchard and Matschke (forthcoming), Blanchard, Bown and Johnson (2015) Quanti cation: Caliendo and Parro (2015), trade creation/trade diversion literature Empirical puzzles and open questions arising out of the current data on PTA tari¤s: Overall, the literature is inconclusive as to how much…”
• Common transport infrastructure: A quantitative model and estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative (2019, background): “Six economic corridors have been identified: (1) the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor; (2) the New Eurasian Land Bridge; (3) the China–Central Asia–West Asia Economic Corridor; (4) the China–Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor; (5) the ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor; and (6) the Bangladesh”
• Is the WTO Passé (2015, positive): “Relatedly, Caliendo and Parro (2015) and Tintelnot (2014) build on the Eaton and Kortum (2002) framework to quantify the trade impacts of NAFTA (Caliendo and Parro) and the trade and production impacts of the proposed Canada-EU trade and investment agreement (Tintelnot).”
• The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and Welfare Implications (2011, neutral): “In addition, in each sector the restriction that θ > ε− 1 must be satisfied, and it is not clear whether Caliendo and Parro (2010)’s estimated sectoral θ’s meet this restriction in every case.”
• Structural Gravity and Fixed Effects (2015, positive): “The method proposed by Anderson and Yotov (2010) is to estimate in reiterative steps: i) estimate equation (4) with fixed effects to obtain D̂k ijk ; ii) solve for equations (5) and (6) to obtain inward and outward resistance indexes using the first-step estimate of D̂k ijk and observed output and e”
• Robots, Tasks and Trade (2018, neutral): “Chor (2013): “Organizing the Global Value Chain,” Econometrica, 81(6), 2127– 2204. Antras, P., and A. de Gortari (2017): “On the Geography of Global Value Chains,” Unpublished manuscript. Arkolakis, C., A. Costinot, and A. Rodriguez-Clare (2012): “New Theories, Same Old Gains?,” American Economic Re”
• Trade, Domestic Frictions, and Scale Effects (2016, neutral): “where ψ̂mm is given by ψ̂mm = ŵ−θ m ∑ k∈Ωn ψmkŵ −θ k , (19)”