Trade and Structural Change: Focusing on the Specifics

We thank Rodrigo Adão, Costas Arkolakis, Luis Baldomero-Quintana, Lorenzo Caliendo, Kerem Cosar, Mario Crucini, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Dave Donaldson, Jackson Howell, David Hummels, Douglas Irwin, Beata Javorcik, Brian Kovak, James Lake, Peter McHenry, John McLaren, Emily Moschini, Luca Opromolla, John Parman, Peter Schott, Mine Senses, Brandon Sheridan, Haruka Takayama, Daniel (Yi) Xu, and Tom Zylkin for helpful suggestions and discussions of this draft. We also thank conference participants at the NBER Summer Institute, the ETOS, the Mid-Atlantic Trade Workshop, SEA Annual Meetings, as well as seminar participants at Appalachian State University, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State University, Southern Methodist University, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, T.E.A.M., University at Albany, U.C. Davis, University of Hawaii, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, and Yale University. All errors are our own. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from an Upjohn Institute ECRA grant as well NSF Award #2314696. This manuscript was previously circulated under the title “Trade Policy as an Exogenous Shock: Focusing on the Specifics.” First version June 16, 2021 https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/246063/1/21-349.pdf The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.