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Amit Khandelwal
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 61
Citations - 8921
Amit Khandelwal is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Free trade & Quality (business). The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 59 publications receiving 7425 citations. Previous affiliations of Amit Khandelwal include University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs, imports of intermediate inputs, and domestic firm product scope, and find that lower input tariffs account on average for 31% of the new products introduced by domestic firms.
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Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity: The Case of India
Petia Topalova,Amit Khandelwal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit India's rapid, comprehensive, and externally imposed trade reform to establish a causal link between changes in tariffs and firm productivity, and find no evidence of a differential impact according to state-level characteristics, observing complementarities between trade liberalization and additional industrial policy reforms.
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The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit both price and quantity information to estimate the quality of products exported to the U.S. The estimated qualities reveal substantial heterogeneity in product markets' scope for quality differentiation, or their "quality ladders.''
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The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders
TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit both price and quantity information to estimate the quality of products exported to the United States, and use this variation to explain the heterogeneous impact of low-wage competition on US manufacturing employment and output.
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Prices, Markups and Trade Reform
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how prices, markups and marginal costs respond to trade liberalization and find that firms offset their reducussions in marginal costs by raising markups.