Mary Amiti, Caroline Freund, World Bank
Decomposing China’s real export growth, of over 500 percent since 1992, reveals a number of interesting findings. First, China’s export structure changed dramatically, with growing export shares...
Assessing the Impact of Communication Costs on International Trade (2007)
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu, Mary Amiti, Caroline Freund
Abstract: Communication costs are frequently cited as an important determinant of trade costs, but without any supporting empirical evidence. We test this relationship by incorporating alternative...
Productivity or Endowments? Sectoral Evidence for Hong Kong’s Aggregate Growth 1 (2007)
Hiau Looi Kee, Deborah Swenson, Catherine Morrison Paul, Kaoru Nabeshima, Mary Amiti
This paper provides sectoral evidence that sheds new light on the current debate regarding the sources of growth of the East Asian miracle. We test both the productivity-driven and endowment-driven...
Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor (2005)
Amiti, Mary, Pissarides, Christopher
We show in the context of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter-regional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives...
Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor (2005)
Amiti, Mary, Pissarides, Christopher
We show in the context of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter-regional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives...
Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor (2002)
Amiti, Mary, Pissarides, Christopher
We show in the framework of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous and productivity depends on the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead...
Trade and industrial location with heterogeneous labor (2002)
Amiti, Mary, Pissarides, Christopher
We show in the framework of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous and productivity depends on the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead...
This paper considers the effect of economic integration on the industrial structure and trade patterns of two countries which differ only in size. In a general equilibrium model of intra-industry...
This paper considers the effect of economic integration on the industrial structure and trade patterns of two countries which differ only in size. In a general equilibrium model of intra-industry...
Service Offshoring, Productivity, and Employment: Evidence from the United States
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of...
Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?
This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less...
Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs and Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods...
Service Offshoring, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from the US
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing...
Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries...
Trade Costs and Location of Foreign Firms in China
This study examines the determinants of entry into by foreign firms, using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic...
Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs, and Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods...
Economic Geography and Wages: The Case of Indonesia
The paper finds a significant shift in the economic characteristics of civil conflicts during the1990s. Conflicts have become shorter but with more severe contractions and a stronger recovery of...
Fear of service outsourcing: is it justified?
"The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial...
This Paper estimates the agglomeration benefits that arise from vertical linkages between firms. The analysis is based on international trade and economic geography theory developed by Krugman and...
Trade Costs and Location of Foreign Firms in China
Amiti, Mary, Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata
This study examines the determinants of entry by foreign firms, using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic...
This paper analyzes whether uniform tariffs give rise to the highest welfare compared with tariffs that either escalate or de-escalate along the value chain of production. We show that countries may...
Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?
This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less...
Service Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from the United States
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were...
Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?
This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less...
Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?
This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries actual preferential access is less...
Regional Specialization and Technical Leapfrogging
This paper investigates circumstances where a region loses its technological leadership after some major technological breakthrough. Input-output linkages between firms in a Cournot upstream industry...
Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China
Amiti, Mary, Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska
The authors examine the determinants of entry by foreign firms using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic...
Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogeneous Labor
Mary Amiti, Christopher A. Pissarides
We show in the framework of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous and productivity depends on the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead...
This paper estimates the agglomeration benefits that arise from vertical linkages between firms. We identify the agglomeration benefits off the spatial variation in firms' nominal wages. Using...
Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs, and Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper estimates the productivity gains from reducing tariffs on final goods and from reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs. Lower output tariffs can increase productivity by inducing tougher...
Is the United States losing its productivity advantage?
Strikingly high rates of labor productivity growth in China, India, and other emerging economies have prompted concerns that U.S. workers and firms are losing ground to their competitors in world...
This paper estimates the agglomeration benefits that arise from vertical linkages between firms in the context of Indonesia. The analysis is based on international trade and economic geography theory...
Location of Vertically Linked Industries: Agglomeration versus Comparative Advantage
This Paper analyses the effects of reducing trade costs on the location of manufacturing firms that are vertically linked and differ in factor intensities. I extend the new economic geography...
Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogenous Labour
Amiti, Mary, Pissarides, Christopher
We show in the framework of a new economic geography model that when labour is heterogenous and productivity depends on the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead...
Investment Liberalization and International Trade
Amiti, Mary, Wakelin, Katharine
This Paper estimates the cross-price elasticity of exports with respect to investment costs for bilateral relations between 36 countries. We show that the effect of reducing foreign direct investment...
Fear of Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries...
New Trade Theories and Industrial Location in the EU: A Survey of Evidence.
'New' trade theories and the 'new economic geography' theories make a number of predictions about the characteristics of the industries we should expect to become geographically concentrated and the...
Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogeneous Labor
Mary Amiti, Christopher A. Pissarides
We show in the context of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and interregional trade. Labor heterogeneity gives...
Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is it Justified?
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries...
Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence
How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers’ wages varies with the...
Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence
How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers' wages varies with the global...
The anatomy of China's export growth
Decomposing China's real export growth, of over 500 percent since 1992,reveals a number of interesting findings. First, China's export structure changed dramatically, with growing export shares in...
What's behind volatile import prices from China?
In a sharp departure from earlier trends, the price of U.S. imports from China rose 6 percent in the 2006-08 period. To explore the forces behind this surprising increase, the authors create a new...
Service Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from the US
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were...
Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogeneous Labor
Mary Amiti, Christopher A. Pissarides
We show in the framework of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous and productivity depends on the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead...
This paper considers the effect of economic integration on the industrial structure and trade patterns of two countries which differ only in size. In a general equilibrium model of intra-industry...
Specialisation Patterns in Europe
The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether specialisation has increased in European Union countries, and to determine whether specialisation patterns are consistent with trade theories. I...
Competition and Quality Upgrading
How does competition affect innovation? We address this question by using a novel approach to measure quality - an important component of innovation - using highly disaggregated product data for a...
Competition and Quality Upgrading
Mary Amiti, Amit K. Khandelwal
How does competition affect innovation? We address this question by using a novel approach to measure quality -- an important component of innovation -- using highly disaggregated product data for a...