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Relational Frictions Along the Supply Chain - Edward Wiles

Connecting Senegalese traders to Turkish suppliers increases their product quality/variety, but relationships only last when traders are given the ability to verify supplier quality.

edwardwiles.github.io/storage/pape...

How Globalization Shapes Corporate Innovation - Chan Kim

Foreign market access caused US firms to redirect their R&D from scientific research to narrow products, resulting in higher quality products but lower aggregate efficiency.

drive.google.com/file/d/1yXTG...

Quality Upgrading and Productivity Gains from Domestic Market Access Changes in India - Sang Hoon Kong

A highway project in India that increased market access for manufacturing firms increased their productivity and product quality.

www.sanghoonkong.com/_files/ugd/8...

Does Skill Abundance Still Matter? - Shinnosuke Kikuchi

Skill-abundant countries used to have a comparative advantage in exporting skill-intensive products, but automation eliminated this advantage.

www.shinnosuke-kikuchi.com/files/resear...

Patent Protection in Developing Economies - Weili Chen

A patent enforcement reform in China increased innovation and tech transfer to MNC affiliates, but also increased markups, highlighting an inverted-U relationship between IP protection and welfare.

weilichen-econ.github.io/files/ChenWe...

Migration, Networks and Religious Choice - Timothy Hersey

Pentecostalism has grown in Africa because it creates a welcoming network for new rural-urban migrants - leading both migrants and their sending households to convert.

timhersey.github.io/MyWebsite/He...

I spent <30 seconds on each. More important than overall score to me was being correct that #3 was human written, because that was the only one that provoked a strong "AI couldn't have written that" reaction!