Trading - Publications - Faculty & Research

2019
Working Paper

Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international outsourcing. Respondents... View Details

Keywords: Labor; Markets; System Shocks; Trade; Attitudes; Surveys

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Oct 2008
Conference Presentation

The Rumpelstiltskin Effect: Synthetic Biology and International Trade

By: Gautam Mukunda and Rachel Wellhausen

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26 May 2015
News

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

06 Jun 2012
News

Trade secrets of oldest family firm in US

15 Jul 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Keywords: by Pol Antras & C. Fritz Foley; Agriculture & Agribusiness

Web

Bibliography - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring View Details

19 Mar 2018
News

The Unintended Consequences Of Starting A Trade War With Mexico

Time Series Experiments and Causal Estimands: Exact Randomization Tests and Trading

We define causal estimands for experiments on single time series, extending the potential outcome framework to dealing with temporal data. Our approach allows the estimation of a broad class of these estimands and exact... View Details

1994
Manual

Instructor's Manual for International Trade and Competition

By: D. B. Yoffie and B. Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Globalization; Competition

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summer 1992
Article

Shareholder Trading Practices and Corporate Investment Horizons

By: Kenneth A. Froot, André Perold and J. Stein

Keywords: Institutional Investing; Market Efficiency; Behavioral Finance; Equities; Stock Market; Indexing; Financial Markets; Asset Pricing

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25 Jun 2019
News

Why the Era of Free Trade May Be Coming to an End

2012
Working Paper

Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andre Martinez-Fritscher and Martina Viarengo

In this paper, we examine the role of trade shocks in promoting the diffusion of elementary education in subnational units in Brazil during a period (1889–1930) in which they had relative financial autonomy to collect export taxes and spend on public goods. The... View Details

Keywords: History; Literacy; Voting; Education; Spending; Performance Improvement; Government and Politics; Brazil

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2010
Article

International Trade and National Security in Historical Perspective

By: Sophus A. Reinert

Keywords: Trade; National Security

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April 1999
Article

Diversification Strategies of British Trading Companies: Harrisons & Crosfield c1900-c1980

By: G. Jones and Judith Wale

This article examines the diversification strategies and organisational competencies of Harrisons & Crosfield, a British-based multinational, between 1900 and 1980. There is an accumulating body of case study evidence on the historical evolution of British... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Great Britain

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