J Bradford Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3960520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Bradford Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Bradford |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Census Bureau |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Winners and Losers in International Trade: The Effects on US Presidential Voting
International trade directly influences US presidential elections. We explore the electoral implications of the increasing tradability of services and the large US surplus in services trade. Our paper builds on prior work showing that job insecurity from import competition in manufacturing diminishes political support for incumbents. We construct novel measures of the tradability of an industry using establishment-level data covering nearly all U…
The Influence of Firm Global Supply Chains and Foreign Currency Undervaluations on US Trade Disputes
We apply insights from “new, new” trade theory to explain a puzzling decline in US firm antidumping (AD) filings in an era of persistent foreign currency undervaluations and increasing import competition. Firms exhibit heterogeneity both within and across industries regarding foreign direct investment (FDI). We propose that firms making vertical or resource-seeking investments abroad will be less likely to file AD petitions, and firms are likely …
The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
This article reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from microdata on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm heterogeneity. Subsequent empirical research has examined additional predictions of these theories and explored other dimensions of the data not originally captured …
Firms in International Trade
Since the mid-1990s, researchers have used micro datasets to study countries' production and trade at the firm level and have found that exporting firms differ substantially from firms that solely serve the domestic market. Across a wide range of countries and industries, exporting firms have been shown to be larger, more productive, more skill- and capital-intensive, and to pay higher wages than nonexporting firms. These differences exist even b…
Survival of the best fit: Exposure to low-wage countries and the (uneven) growth of U.S. manufacturing plants
Why Some Firms Export
This paper examines the factors that increase the probability of entry into exporting. Using a panel of U.S. manufacturing plants, we test for the role of plant characteristics, spillovers from neighboring exporters, entry costs, and government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are apt to reenter, and plants are likely to export in consecutive years. However, we find t…
Plants and Productivity in International Trade
We reconcile trade theory with plant-level export behavior, extending the Ricardian model to accommodate many countries, geographic barriers, and imperfect competition. Our model captures qualitatively basic facts about U.S. plants: (i) productivity dispersion, (ii) higher productivity among exporters, (iii) the small fraction who export, (iv) the small fraction earned from exports among exporting plants, and (v) the size advantage of exporters. …
The Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants
This paper examines the evolution of productivity in U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 1992. We define a vintage effect as the change in productivity of recent cohorts of new plants relative to earlier cohorts of new plants, and a survival effect as the change in productivity of a particular cohort of surviving plants as it ages. Both factors contribute to industry productivity growth, but play offsetting roles in determining a cohort's rela…
Big Firms and Economic Development: Revisiting Works by Bennett Harrison
Exceptional exporter performance: Cause, effect, or both?
Exporters, Jobs, and Wages in U.S. Manufacturing: 1976-1987
Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Robert Z. Lawrence, Exporters, Jobs, and Wages in U.S. Manufacturing: 1976-1987, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, Vol. 1995 (1995), pp. 67-119
Winners and Losers in International Trade: The Effects on US Presidential Voting
International trade directly influences US presidential elections. We explore the electoral implications of the increasing tradability of services and the large US surplus in services trade. Our paper builds on prior work showing that job insecurity from import competition in manufacturing diminishes political support for incumbents. We construct novel measures of the tradability of an industry using establishment-level data covering nearly all U…
Firms in International Trade
Since the mid-1990s, researchers have used micro datasets to study countries' production and trade at the firm level and have found that exporting firms differ substantially from firms that solely serve the domestic market. Across a wide range of countries and industries, exporting firms have been shown to be larger, more productive, more skill- and capital-intensive, and to pay higher wages than nonexporting firms. These differences exist even b…
The Influence of Firm Global Supply Chains and Foreign Currency Undervaluations on US Trade Disputes
We apply insights from “new, new” trade theory to explain a puzzling decline in US firm antidumping (AD) filings in an era of persistent foreign currency undervaluations and increasing import competition. Firms exhibit heterogeneity both within and across industries regarding foreign direct investment (FDI). We propose that firms making vertical or resource-seeking investments abroad will be less likely to file AD petitions, and firms are likely …
Big Firms and Economic Development: Revisiting Works by Bennett Harrison
Exporters, Jobs, and Wages in U.S. Manufacturing: 1976-1987
Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Robert Z. Lawrence, Exporters, Jobs, and Wages in U.S. Manufacturing: 1976-1987, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, Vol. 1995 (1995), pp. 67-119
Exceptional exporter performance: Cause, effect, or both?
The Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants
This paper examines the evolution of productivity in U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 1992. We define a vintage effect as the change in productivity of recent cohorts of new plants relative to earlier cohorts of new plants, and a survival effect as the change in productivity of a particular cohort of surviving plants as it ages. Both factors contribute to industry productivity growth, but play offsetting roles in determining a cohort's rela…
Big Firms and Economic Development: Revisiting Works by Bennett Harrison
Plants and Productivity in International Trade
We reconcile trade theory with plant-level export behavior, extending the Ricardian model to accommodate many countries, geographic barriers, and imperfect competition. Our model captures qualitatively basic facts about U.S. plants: (i) productivity dispersion, (ii) higher productivity among exporters, (iii) the small fraction who export, (iv) the small fraction earned from exports among exporting plants, and (v) the size advantage of exporters. …
Why Some Firms Export
This paper examines the factors that increase the probability of entry into exporting. Using a panel of U.S. manufacturing plants, we test for the role of plant characteristics, spillovers from neighboring exporters, entry costs, and government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are apt to reenter, and plants are likely to export in consecutive years. However, we find t…
Survival of the best fit: Exposure to low-wage countries and the (uneven) growth of U.S. manufacturing plants
Firms in International Trade
Since the mid-1990s, researchers have used micro datasets to study countries' production and trade at the firm level and have found that exporting firms differ substantially from firms that solely serve the domestic market. Across a wide range of countries and industries, exporting firms have been shown to be larger, more productive, more skill- and capital-intensive, and to pay higher wages than nonexporting firms. These differences exist even b…
The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
This article reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from microdata on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm heterogeneity. Subsequent empirical research has examined additional predictions of these theories and explored other dimensions of the data not originally captured …
The Influence of Firm Global Supply Chains and Foreign Currency Undervaluations on US Trade Disputes
We apply insights from “new, new” trade theory to explain a puzzling decline in US firm antidumping (AD) filings in an era of persistent foreign currency undervaluations and increasing import competition. Firms exhibit heterogeneity both within and across industries regarding foreign direct investment (FDI). We propose that firms making vertical or resource-seeking investments abroad will be less likely to file AD petitions, and firms are likely …
Winners and Losers in International Trade: The Effects on US Presidential Voting
International trade directly influences US presidential elections. We explore the electoral implications of the increasing tradability of services and the large US surplus in services trade. Our paper builds on prior work showing that job insecurity from import competition in manufacturing diminishes political support for incumbents. We construct novel measures of the tradability of an industry using establishment-level data covering nearly all U…
Economics (10 works) · Global trade and economics (10 works) · Business (8 works) · International trade (8 works) · International economics (7 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (5 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (4 works) · Industrial organization (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Productivity (4 works)