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Robert C. Feenstra
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 298
Citations - 39591
Robert C. Feenstra is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Price index & Trade barrier. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 295 publications receiving 37147 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert C. Feenstra include National Bureau of Economic Research & University of California, San Diego.
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Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China: a Political Economy Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, a model drawing on Grossman and Helpman (1994, 1996) is used to derive an empirically estimable government objective function, and the key structural parameters of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the years 1984-1995.
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Incentive Compatible Trade Policies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered a two-country trade model with production uncertainty and considered incentive compatible trade policies, which are designed to be truth revealing while partially sharing the production risk.
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International factor mobility
TL;DR: The second volume contains essays that have opened up new areas of analysis in the theory of international trade and in the associated fields of public finance and developmental economics, as well as other major areas of trade theory as mentioned in this paper.
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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
Robert C. Feenstra,J. Jensen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a direct measure of imported materials by industry for the United States in 1997 is presented, showing that there is a correlation between the offshoring shares made with and without the proportionality assumption, and a higher correlation of 0.87 when the shares are value weighted.
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Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that part of the apparent speed-up in productivity in the United States actually represents gains in the terms of trade and tariff reductions, especially for information-technology products.