Good jobs, bad jobs, and trade liberalization (2007)
Davis, Donald R., Harrigan, James
Globalization threatens "good jobs at good wages", according to overwhelming public sentiment. Yet professional discussion often rules out such concerns a priori. We instead offer a framework to...
Timeliness, trade and agglomeration (2004)
Harrigan, James, Venables, Tony
An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediate goods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such as freight...
Timeliness, trade and agglomeration (2004)
Harrigan, James, Venables, Tony
An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediate goods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such as freight...
Airplanes and Comparative Advantage
Airplanes are a fast but expensive means of shipping goods, a fact which has implications for comparative advantage. The paper develops a Ricardian model with a continuum of goods which vary by...
Tight Clothing: How the MFA Affects Asian Apparel Exports
Carolyn L. Evans, James Harrigan
International trade in apparel and textiles is regulated by a system of bilateral tariffs and quotas known as the Multifiber Arrangement or MFA. Using a time series of detailed product-level data...
Lost Decade in Translation: Did the US Learn from Japan's Post-Bubble Mistakes?
James Harrigan, Kenneth Kuttner
In 1991, the Japanese economy ended a historic expansion and entered a period of stagnation that has yet to abate. Nine years later, the US economy ended a similarly historic expansion. There were...
Distance, Time, and Specialization: Lean Retailing in General Equilibrium
Carolyn L. Evans, James Harrigan
Transport time increases with distance traveled, and time is valuable. We show the implications of these facts for global specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be...
Testing the Theory of Trade Policy: Evidence from the Abrupt End of the Multifibre Arrangement
James Harrigan, Geoffrey Barrows
Quota restrictions on United States imports of apparel and textiles under the multifibre arrangement (MFA) ended abruptly in January 2005. This change in policy was large, predetermined, and fully...
Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence
Baldwin, Richard, Harrigan, James
Product-level data on bilateral U.S. exports exhibit two strong patterns. First, most potential export flows are not present, and the incidence of these "export zeros" is strongly correlated with...
Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence
Richard Baldwin, James Harrigan
Product-level data on bilateral U.S. exports exhibit two strong patterns. First, most potential export flows are not present, and the incidence of these "export zeros" is strongly correlated with...
Technology, Factor Supplies, and International Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Model.
The neoclassical model of trade predicts that international specialization will be jointly determined by cross-country differences in relative factor endowments and technology levels. This paper...
Factor supplies and specialization in the world economy
James Harrigan, Egon Zakrajsek
A core prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory is that countries specialize in goods in which they have a comparative advantage, and that the source of comparative advantage is differences in...
Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration
James Harrigan, Anthony J. Venables
An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediategoods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such asfreight...
Good jobs, bad jobs, and trade liberalization
Donald R. Davis, James Harrigan
Globalization threatens "good jobs at good wages", according to overwhelming public sentiment. Yet professional discussion often rules out such concerns a priori. We instead offer a framework to...
Terrorism and the resilience of cities
James Harrigan, Philippe Martin
The September 11 attacks in New York and Washington have forced Americans to confront the fact that to live or work in a large city is to be at greater risk of large-scale terrorism. What do these...
Distance, Time and Specialization
Time is money, and distance matters. We model the interaction of these truisms, and show the implications for global specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be...
Distance, time, and specialization
Time is money, and distance matters. We model the interaction of these truisms, and show the implications for global specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be...
The impact of the Asia crisis on U.S. industry: an almost-free lunch?
Despite predictions to the contrary, the Asia crisis had only modest overall effects on the United States. The expected surge in import volumes did not materialize and the drop in demand for U.S....
Cross-country comparisons of industry total factor productivity: theory and evidence
International trade economists typically assume that TFP for each industry is the same in every country. This paper casts doubt on this hypothesis, finding large and persistent TFP differences across...
Technology, factor supplies, and international specialization: estimating the neoclassical model
The standard neoclassical model of trade theory predicts that international specialization will be jointly determined by cross-country differences in relative factor endowments and relative...
Estimation of cross-country differences in industry production functions.
International trade economists typically assume that there are no cross-country differences in industry total factor productivity (TFP). In contrast, this paper finds large and persistent TFP...
International trade and American wages in general equilibrium, 1967-1995
In the last quarter century, wage inequality has increased dramatically in the United States. At the same time, the United States has become more integrated into the world economy, relative prices of...
U.S. wages in general equilibrium: the effects of prices, technology and factor supplies, 1963-1991
James Harrigan, Rita A. Balaban
Wage inequality in the United States has increased in the past two decades, and most researchers suspect that the main causes are changes in technology, international competition, and factor...
Factor supplies and specialization in the world economy
James Harrigan, Egon Zakrajsek
A core prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory is that countries specialize in goods in which they have a comparative advantage, and that the source of comparative advantage is differences in...
Specialization and the volume of trade: do the data obey the laws?
The core subjects of trade theory are the pattern and volume of trade: which goods are traded by which countries, and how much of those goods are traded. The first part of this paper discusses...
Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration
Harrigan, James, Venables, Anthony J.
An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediate goods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such as freight...
The Volume of Trade in Differentiated Intermediate Goods: Theory and Evidence.
This paper develops a model of trade in differentiated intermediate goods and shows how the structure of the importing country's production will influence gross bilateral import volumes. A regression...
Scale Economies and the Volume of Trade.
This paper offers a theoretical explanation of why previous attempts to statistically explain intraindustry trade have been unsuccessful and proposes an econometric approach that tests the...
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization
Donald R. Davis, James Harrigan
How do labor markets adjust to trade liberalization? Leading models of intraindustry trade (Krugman (1981), Melitz (2003)) assume homogeneous workers and full employment, and thus predict that all...
Technology, Factor Supplies and International Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Model
The standard neoclassical model of trade theory predicts that international specialization will be jointly determined by cross-country differences in relative factor endowments and relative...
Estimation of Cross-Country Differences in Industry
Many economists and policy makers are concerned about international differences in technology and labor quality, correctly seeing these issues as crucial to long term growth in living standards....
International Trade and American Wages in General Equilibrium, 1967 - 1995
In the last quarter century, wage inequality has increased dramatically in the United States. At the same time, the US has become more integrated into the world economy prices of final goods have...
U.S. Wages in General Equilibrium: The Effects of Prices, Technology, and Factor Supplies, 1963-1991
Wage inequality in the United States has increased, and many suspect that the main causes are changes in technology, international competition, and factor supplies. Our empirical model estimates the...
Factor Supplies and Specialization in the World Economy
James Harrigan, Egon Zakrajsek
A core prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory is that countries specialize in goods in which they have a comparative advantage, and that the source of comparative advantage is differences in...
Specialization and the Volume of Trade: Do the Data Obey the Laws?
The core subjects of trade theory are the pattern and volume of trade: which goods are traded by which countries, and how much of those goods are traded. The first part of the paper discusses...
Distance, Time, and Specialization
Carolyn L. Evans, James Harrigan
Time is money, and distance matters. We model the interaction of these truisms, and show the implications for global specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be...
Is Japan's Trade (still) Different?
Does Japanese trade in manufactured goods differ from the rest-of-the world average and from the U.S.? We use a simple industry-level gravity model and 1981-1998 data to answer this question. We...
Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration
James Harrigan, Anthony J. Venables
An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediate goods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such as freight...
China's Local Comparative Advantage
China's trade pattern is influenced not just by its overall comparative advantage in labor intensive goods but also by geography. We use two variants of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model to study China's...