Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms (2007)
Beata K. Smarzynska, Andrew Bernard, Simon Evenett, Mary Hallward-driemeier, Pravin Krishna, Hiau Looi Kee, ...
Abstract: Many countries aim to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) by offering ever more generous incentive packages and justifying their actions with the expected knowledge externalities to be...
Aid, Dutch Disease, and Manufacturing Growth (2006)
Raghuram G. Rajan, Arvind Subramanian, John Hicklin, Nurul Islam, Simon Johnson, Aart Kraay, ...
We examine one of the most important and intriguing puzzles in economics: why it is so hard to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good policies. We...
Do we really know that the WTO increases trade (2004)
Richard Baldwin, Barry Eichengreen, Rob Feenstra, Jeff Frankel, Hans Genberg, ...
Harrison for data assistance; and the HKMA, the MAS and Princeton University for hospitality and helpful seminar feedback. Asher Isaac and an EASE 13 paper by David Li and Changqi Wu inspired me. The...
Essays in international trade--[microform] /--Pravin Krishna. (1995)
Department: Economics.
The Effect of Trade Policy Reforms on Labour Markets: Evidence from India
Uma Kambhampati, Pravin Krishna, Devashish Mitra
This paper investigates the labour market impact of the 1991 trade reforms in India using a detailed panel data set on firms in five different import competing industries. We have two main results....
Lobbying Competition Over US Trade Policy
Kishore Gawande, Pravin Krishna
Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between...
A Political Economy Analysis of Preferential Trading and Multilateralism
This paper examines the impact of Free Trade Areas (FTAs) on the incentives for multilateral liberalization and challenges the contention that Free Trade Areas are superior to GATT style...
Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare
Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna, William Maloney
This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of...
Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Reforms with Majority Voting
Pravin Krishna, Devashish Mitra
This paper shows how unilateral liberalization in one country can increase the voting support for reciprocal reduction in trade barriers in a partner country. When trade policies are determined...
Trade Policy, Income Risk and Welfare
Trade Policy, Income Risk, Welfare, Incomplete Markets, Macroeconomics
Human capital, trade liberalization, and income risk
Krebs, Tom, Krishna, Pravin, Maloney, William
Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital...
Trade policy, income risk, and welfare
Krebs, Tom, Krishna, Pravin, Maloney, William
This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of...
A Political Economy Analysis of Preferential Trading and Multilateralism
This paper examines the impact of Free Trade Areas (FTAs) on the incentives for multilateral liberalization and challenges the contention that Free Trade Areas are superior to GATT style...
Trade Policy, Income Volatility and Welfare
This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk and uses the empirical estimates of this relationship to asses the welfare costs of changes in trade...
The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Empirical Approaches
Kishore Gawande, Pravin Krishna
In order to explain the prevalence and persistence of trade protection, a large body of work that departs from the notion of welfare maximizing governments and emphasizes instead political-economic...
Regionalism And Multilateralism: A Political Economy Approach
Preferential trading arrangements are analyzed from the viewpoint of the "new political economy" that views trade policy as being determined by lobbying of concentrated interest groups. Two...
Foreign Lobbies and U.S. Trade Policy
Kishore Gawande, Pravin Krishna, Michael J Robbins
In popular discussion, much has been made of the susceptibility of government policies to lobbying by foreigners-the general presumption being that this is harmful to the home economy. However, in a...
exposita note : On competition and endogenous firm efficiency
Conventional wisdom holds that product market competition disciplines firms into efficiency of operation. However, in a well known paper, Martin (1993) has shown that in a linear Cournot setting...
Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy: An Interest-Group Approach
Pravin Krishna, Devashish Mitra
Using the menu-auction approach to endogenous determination of tariffs and allowing additionally for lobby formation itself to be endogenous, this paper analyzes the impact of unilateral trade...
Foreign Lobbies and US Trade Policy
Kishore Gawande, Pravin Krishna, Michael J. Robbins
In popular discussion much has been made recently of the susceptibility of government policies to lobbying by foreigners. The general presumption has also been that such interactions have a...
Lobbying competition over trade policy
Gawande, Kishore, Krishna, Pravin, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between...
Comparative Advantage, Complexity and Volatility
Pravin Krishna, Andrei A. Levchenko
Less developed countries tend to experience higher output volatility, a fact that is, in part, explained by their specialization in more volatile sectors. This paper proposes theoretical explanations...
International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States
Pravin Krishna, Mine Zeynep Senses
This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying...
What Governments Maximize and Why: The View from Trade
Kishore Gawande, Pravin Krishna, Marcelo Olarreaga
Policy making power enables governments to redistribute income to powerful interests in society. However, some governments exhibit greater concern for aggregate welfare than others. This government...
What Governments Maximize and Why: The View from Trade
Gawande, Kishore, Krishna, Pravin, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Policymaking power enables governments to redistribute income to powerful interests in society. However, some governments exhibit greater concern for aggregate welfare than others. This government...