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China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty (2017)
Working Paper
Facchini, G., Liu, M. Y., Mayda, A. M., & Zhou, M. China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty

We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the r... Read More about China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty.

Twin Peaks (2017)
Working Paper
Defever, F., & Riaño, A. Twin Peaks

Received wisdom suggests that most exporters sell the majority of their output domestically. In this paper, however, we show that the distribution of export intensity not only varies substantially across countries, but in a large number of cases is a... Read More about Twin Peaks.

All these worlds are yours, except India: the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal (2017)
Working Paper
Defever, F., Reyes, J., Riaño, A., & Varela, G. (2017). All these worlds are yours, except India: the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal

This paper evaluates the effect on firm-level export out-comes of the Cash Incentive Scheme for Exports program provided by the Government of Nepal. The analysis utilizes customs-level data for 2011–14, combined with information on the subsidy paymen... Read More about All these worlds are yours, except India: the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal.