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Bown, Chad P. - 2014

This paper surveys political-economic research on the variety of instruments that governments use to conduct international trade policy. It presents key insights on the relationships between instruments such as tariffs, quotas, voluntary export restraints, and other nontariff barriers, as well...

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy

Blanchard, Emily J. - 2016

workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with political economy. Theory predicts that discretionary final goods tariffs …

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Emerging Economies, Trade Policy, and Macroeconomic Shocks

Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2013

This paper estimates the impact of aggregate fluctuations on the time-varying trade policies of 13 major emerging economies over 1989-2010. By 2010, these World Trade Organization member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports and 22 percent of world gross...

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How Different are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from US Trade Policies toward Steel

Bown, Chad P. - 2013

Use of temporary trade barriers has proliferated across countries, industries, and even policy instruments. This paper constructs a panel of bilateral, product-level United States steel imports that are matched to a unique data set on trade policy exclusions that are associated with the 2002...

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications, Part I, The Pre-colonial and Colonial Periods

Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2012

nature and operation of the colonial economy and the instrumentality of customary law. The sequel to this paper focuses on …

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications

Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2013

importance of the informal economy in female economic activity. The first axis the paper studies is whether reducing educational …. Women's economic activities in the informal economy largely represent the commercialization of domestic skills and … dependence on social networks. The shunting of female production to the informal sector in the male-dominated colonial economy is …

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