Sabotage as Industrial Policy

We characterize sabotage, exemplified by recent U.S. policies concerning China's semiconductor industry, as trade policy. For some (but not all) goods, completely destroying foreigners productivity increases domestic real income by shifting the location of production and improving the terms of trade

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背景与挑战

背景概述

该研究以美国对中国半导体产业的政策为例，将‘破坏’视为一种贸易政策，发现完全破坏外国生产力可通过改变生产地点和改善贸易条件提高国内实际收入，而部分破坏则可能降低实际收入。论文用贸易弹性、进口和产出份额等充分统计量概括破坏的收益，成本取决于被破坏商品的相对单位劳动成本。