Annual Conference

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Trade, Growth and Development

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May 2023

Geographic Spillovers and Firm Exports: Evidence from China

Lin TIAN, Yue YU
This paper examines the importance of domestic economic geography for a country’s export performance. We first develop a simple model in which the geographic integration of exporters reduces international trade frictions. We test the model’s predictions by leveraging the expansion of China’s h...
Keywords: Agglomeration, Knowledge Diffusion, Informal Trade Barriers, China’s Highspeed Rail
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Annual Conference

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Trade, Growth and Development

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May 2021

Geographic Fragmentation in a Knowledge Economy: Theory and Evidence from the United States

Lin TIAN, Yang JIAO
We study how the rise in cross-city joint productions (or “geographic fragmentation”)—facilitated by advancements in communication technologies—shapes the spatial skill distribution in the United States. Motivated by observations that large cities became disproportionately skill intensive an...
Keywords: Joint productions, communicaton technologies, skill, wages
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

Geographic Diversification and Banks Funding Costs

Chen LIN, Wensi XIE, Ross LEVINE
We assess the impact of the geographic expansion of bank assets on the cost of banks’ interest-bearing liabilities. Existing research suggests that expansion can both intensify agency problems that increase funding costs and facilitate risk diversification that decreases funding costs. Using a new...
Keywords: banking, banking regulation, Funding Cost, Financial stability
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Annual Conference

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Accounting, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2022

Gender, Competition, and Performance: International Evidence

Kai LI, Qiyuan (Rachel) PENG, Rui SHEN, Gabriel WONG
This paper is one of the first in the literature to study whether and how gender differences in performance under competition vary across countries using field evidence. Our main measure of country-level differences is the individualism dimension in Hofstede’s (1980, 2001) national cultural framew...
Keywords: gender, Competition, equity analysts, forecast error, individualism, international evidence
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Webinar Series

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Pandemic

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Jun 2020

Gender Equality in Work and COVID-19 Deaths

Renee B. ADAMS
On average, women comprise a smaller share of deaths from Covid-19. Variation in the share of Covid-19 deaths for women across countries and US States suggests that biological factors cannot fully account for this gender difference. I hypothesize that women’s participation in the workforce is rela...
Keywords: COVID-19, Death, gender, Work, Equality, Doctors, Nurses, labor Force Participation
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