Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China: A Political Economy Approach (2007)
Lee G. Branstetter, Robert C. Feenstra, Acknowledgements We, Chen Chun-lai, Wen Hai, David Li, ...
We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct investment, against the losses incurred by state-owned enterprises due to such...
Identifying the competition (1990)
Levinsohn, James A., Feenstra, Robert
We propose a utility consistent method of identifying the set of competitors that a product faces. We apply the method to the 1987 U.S. new automobile market.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1981.
Understanding the Home Market Effect and the Gravity Equation: The Role of Differentiating Goods
Feenstra, Robert, Markusen, James R., Rose, Andrew K
This paper argues that the theoretical foundations for the gravity equation are general, while the empirical performance of the gravity equation is specific to the type of goods examined. Most...
On the measurement of product variety in trade
Feenstra, Robert, Hiau Looi Kee
Product variety plays an important role in the theoretical work on monopolistic competition and trade, and recent empirical work has begun to quantify this for aggregate and disaggregate import...
Export variety and country productivity
Feenstra, Robert, Hiau Looi Kee
The authors study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by...
Distributing the Gains from Trade With Incomplete Information
Robert Feenstra, Tracy R. Lewis
We argue that the incomplete information which the government has about domestic agents means that tariffs become an optimal instrument to protect them from import competition. We solve for the...
Putting Things in Order: Patterns of Trade Dynamics and Macroeconomics
Feenstra, Robert, Rose, Andrew K
This paper develops a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using disaggregated US imports data. It finds strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent...
The Value of Information in International Trade: Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong
Robert Feenstra, Gordon Hanson, Songhua Lin
In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China by having access to intermediary services provided in Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets...
Imputation and Price Indexes: Theory and Evidence from the International Price Program
Feenstra, Robert, Diewert, Erwin
The goal of this paper is to theoretically and empirically demonstrate the consequences of different imputation methods, using recent data from the International Price Program. We suppose that prices...
Feenstra, Robert, Kee, Hiau Looi
This paper provides evidence on the monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and endogenous productivity. We show that this model has a well-defined GDP function where relative export...
Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality: A Survey of Trade and Wages
Robert Feenstra, Gordon Hanson
We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or 'global production sharing,' is a potentially important explanation for the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the U.S....
Technology in the Great Divergence
Gregory Clark, Robert Feenstra
In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than...
Optimal Choice of Product Scope for Multiproduct Firms under Monopolistic Competition
In this paper we develop a monopolistic competition model where firms exercise their market power across multiple products. Even with CES preferences, markups are endogenous. Firms choose their...
Feenstra, Robert, Knittel, Christopher
In the second-half of the 1990s, the positive impact of information technology on productivity growth for the United States became apparent. The measurement of this productivity improvement depends...
Bergin, Paul, Feenstra, Robert, Hanson, Gordon
While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth, recently there have been misgivings regarding the fickleness and volatility of this...