Regional Effects of Trade Reform: What Is the Correct Measure of Liberalization?

By Brian Kovak. 2013

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Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration (2018, unknown): “Kovak (2013) interacts the local industry composition with tariff changes to examine the impact of trade reform.”
Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference* (2018, methodology): “ More recently, shift-share strategies have been applied to investigate the local labor market consequences of various observable shocks, including international trade competition (Topalova,2007,2010;Kovak, 2013;Autor, Dorn and Hanson,2013;Dix-Carneiro and Kovak,2017;Pierce and Schott,2017), credit ”
Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country (2018, unknown): “on employer type and informal sector firm data is not available (see Dix-Carneiro and Kovak (2017) for a recent example).”
Trade, pollution and mortality in China (2016, unknown): “7 Other Controls In column (3) we control for a prefecture-level variable HighSkillShock, introduced by Li (2015), which measures the extent to which export expansion increases demand for high skill workers.”
The Impact of Chinese Import Competition on the Local Structure of Employment and Wages: Evidence from France (2017, unknown): “Kovak (2013) frames his analysis in a classical Ricardo-Viner model of capital specific sector and estimates the impact of trade liberalization in the early 1990s on regional (residual) wages in Brazil.”
The Return to Protectionism* (2019, unknown): “…post variation in tariffs across sectors to assess effects on sectors (e.g., Attanasio, Goldberg, and Pavcnik 2004), regions (e.g., Topalova 2010; Kovak 2013; Dix-Carneiro and Kovak 2017), firms (e.g., Amiti and Konings 2007; Goldberg et al. 2010; Bustos 2011), or workers (e.g., Autor et al.…”
Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India (2013, unknown): “where ∆pSTATEd,j is the production share weighted mean change in the log-price of crop j across states excluding the state to which district d belongs.(22) In other words, IV 2d replaces the state price changes in IV 1d with a national average price change uncontaminated by state-specific shocks or ”
Domestic Road Infrastructure and International Trade: Evidence from Turkey (2016, background): “Rousslang and To (1993) document that domestic freight costs on US imports are in the same order of magnitude as international freight costs.”
New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018 (2022, background): “, Kovak, B. K., Mauro, J., and Venancio, A. (2019). The China Shock and Employment in Portuguese Firms.”
Made in China, Sold in Norway: Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock (2015, unknown): “…the Norwegian manufacturing sector and changes in China’s export capacity in these differ- 2Seminal studies exploiting regional variations in exposure to trade shocks largely focus on trade shocks arising from changes in trade policy; see e.g. Topalova (2010), Chiquiar (2008), and Kovak (2013).”
Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods (2017, background): “Due to differences in initial industry composition, the magnitudes of trade shocks vary across labor markets and lead to differential changes in employment and income (Topalova, 2007; Hakobyan and McLaren, 2010; Autor et al., 2013; Kovak, 2013).”