Trade policy uncertainty

K Handley, N Limão - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Trade policy uncertainty (TPU) has become an important source of economic uncertainty
and research. We review the main sources and measures of TPU. We then provide a …

Economic and policy uncertainty: Aggregate export dynamics and the value of agreements

J Carballo, K Handley, N Limão - Journal of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine the interaction of economic and policy uncertainty in a dynamic, heterogeneous
firms model. Uncertainty about foreign income, trade protection, and their interaction …

Economic and policy uncertainty: Export dynamics and the value of agreements

J Carballo, K Handley, N Limão - 2018 - nber.org
We examine the interaction of economic and policy uncertainty in a dynamic, heterogeneous
firms model. Uncertainty about foreign income, trade protection and their interaction …

Uncertainty, GVC participation and the export of Chinese firms

X Wang, H Wu, L Li, L Liu - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing uncertainty has hindered the development of international trade in recent years.
Participating in the global value chain (GVC) has become one way for Chinese export firms …

Learning and the value of trade relationships

R Monarch, T Schmidt-Eisenlohr - International Finance Discussion …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper quantifies the value of importer-exporter relationships. We show that almost 80
percent of US imports take place in pre-existing relationships, with sizable heterogeneity …

Modeling global value chains: approaches and insights from economics

D Chor - Handbook on Global Value Chains, 2019 - elgaronline.com
Over the past ten years, the term 'global value chains'(GVCs) has gradually found its way
into the working vocabulary of economists, particularly those in the area of international …

Firm-to-firm relationships and price rigidity theory and evidence

S Heise - 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
Economists have long suspected that firm-to-firm relationships might increase price rigidity
due to the use of explicit or implicit fixed-price contracts. Using transaction-level import data …

Offshoring under uncertainty

W Kohler, B Kukharskyy - European Economic Review, 2019 - Elsevier
We develop a theoretical framework explaining firms' offshoring decisions in the presence of
uncertainty. Our model highlights the role of labor market institutions in shaping a firm's …

Firm heterogeneity, variable markups, and multinational production: A review from trade policy perspective

Z Ding - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper surveys the main ingredients and results of heterogeneous firms trade policy
literature that has been developing since the early 2000s. First, I present the stylized facts …

Policy uncertainty and foreign direct investment: Evidence from the China-Japan island dispute

C Chen, T Senga, C Sun, H Zhang - 2016 - econstor.eu
Can a temporary negative shock generate long-lasting effects on economic activities? To
show causal evidence, we utilize data from Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) …