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How Employment Framing Affects Trade Preferences: Evidence from Survey Experiments Open
International trade increases aggregate welfare but also creates winners and losers, which makes free trade a contentious political issue. Recent research has established that individuals are more sensitive to anti-trade information about …
Jobs and Support for Trade: Preliminary Findings Open
International trade increases aggregate welfare but also creates winners and losers, which makes free trade a contentious political issue. Recent research has established that individuals are more sensitive to anti-trade information about …
Political Economy of Trade Policy in Latin America Open
Few propositions in economics are as widely accepted as the theory of comparative advantage: If two countries have a comparative advantage in the production of different goods and services, trade can be welfare-enhancing for both. But trad…
Trade Attitudes in Latin America: Evidence from a Multi-Country Survey Experiment Open
This paper examines individual-level support for trade liberalization, relates it to beliefs about trade, and measures its sensitivity to positive and negative framing. The data come from the 2018 Latinobarometro survey of eighteen countri…
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Innovation, Productivity, and Spillover Effects: Evidence from Chile Open
This paper estimates the direct and spillover effects of two matching grants schemes designed to promote firm-level research and development (R&D) investment in Chile on firm productivity. Because the two programs target different kinds of…
Competition-Adjusted Measures of Real Exchanges Rates Open
We develop a methodology to construct real effective exchange rates that incorporate two distinctive elements not accounted for in the traditional measures: i) competition in third markets and ii) adjustments for similarity in export baske…
Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration for Productive Development Policies Open
This paper summarizes the findings of the recent Inter-American Development Bank book Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration Productive Development Policies, based on case studies of 25 productive development policies (PDPs) in five co…
Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration for Productive Development Policies Open
This paper summarizes the findings of the recent Inter-American Development Bank book Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration Productive Development Policies, based on case studies of 25 productive development policies (PDPs) in five co…
Ideology and Taxation in Latin America Open
This paper examines the impact of ideology on tax revenues in Latin America, using a panel of seventeen countries from 1990 to 2010. As a first approach, a fixed-effects model is used to identify the impact of government ideology on taxati…
Ideology and Taxation in Latin America Open
This paper examines the impact of ideology on tax revenues in Latin America, using a panel of seventeen countries from 1990 to 2010. As a first approach, a fixed-effects model is used to identify the impact of government ideology on taxati…
The Challenge of Public Capabilities for Successful Productive Development Policies: Hopeless Task or Pragmatic Program? Open
This paper discusses the organizational structure and technical, operational and political capabilities required for successful productive development policies (PDPs). It also discusses how countries can match their PDPs to existing capabi…
Legislative Knowledge Networks, Status Quo Complexity, and the Approval of Law Initiatives Open
In this article, we explore the role of legislative knowledge networks (LKN) in the enactment of tax policy in Argentina. Findings show that legislative innovation follows a hierarchical (power law) structure with a few distinct issue area…