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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings

Hoekman, Bernard; Winters, L. Alan - 2012

subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …

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COVID-19, Public Procurement Regimes, and Trade Policy

Eknath, Varun; Ereshchenko, Viktoriya; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2021

This paper analyzes a prominent dimension of the initial policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic observed in many countries: the imposition of export restrictions and actions to facilitate imports. Weekly data on the use of trade policy instruments during the first seven months of the COVID-19...

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Regulation, Trade and Productivity in Romania : An Empirical Assessment

De Rosa, Donato; Iootty, Mariana; Pirlea, Ana Florina - 2013

Inappropriate regulation can influence productivity performance by affecting incentives to invest and adopt new technologies, as well as by directly curbing competitive pressures. Results of a labor productivity growth model for European countries suggest that improving the regulatory...

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Increase in Protectionism and Its Impact on Sri Lanka's Performance in Global Markets

Kaminski, Bartlomiej; Ng, Francis - 2013

Sri Lanka's external performance defies global trends on two counts. First, the level of openness as measured by the ratio of trade in goods and services, after a strong increase in 1987-95 and stagnation in 1996-2004, sharply fell in 2005-10 to the levels experienced during the era of import...

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Trade Preferences and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries : A Selective Survey

Hoekman, Bernard; ??zden, ??aglar - 2012

Nonreciprocal trade preferences and provisions in the GATT/WTO that allow developing countries greater leeway to retain or use protectionist policies are two of the central planks of so-called special and differential treatment (SDT) for developing countries in the multilateral trading system....

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Trade Policy, Trade Volumes, and Plant-Level Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries

Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2003

Fernandes explores Colombian trade policy from 1977-91, a period of substantial variation in protection across industries, to examine whether increased exposure to foreign competition generates plant-level productivity gains. Using a large panel of manufacturing plants, she finds a strong...

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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility

Artuc, Erhan; Chaudhuri, Shubham; McLaren, John - 2014

This paper studies a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows researchers to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, duality techniques can be employed to study the equilibrium and, despite...

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Services Linkages and the Value Added Content of Trade

Francois, Joseph; Manchin, Miriam; Tomberger, Patrick - 2013

Services trade constitute roughly one-third of trade on a value added basis, and much of this is concentrated in margin services (transport, logistics) linked to trade in goods. However, producer services are also part of the value added contained in traded goods. This is especially true in high...

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Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation : Do Standards Matter to Trade?

Wilson, John S.; Sewadeh, Mirvat - Tsunehiro Otsuki - 2013

How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World … Trade Organization Ministerial in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. Trade ministers agreed to launch negotiations on trade and …

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Groundnut Policies, Global Trade Dynamics, and the Impact of Trade Liberalization

Diop, Ndiame; Beghin, John; Sewadeh, Mirvat - 2013

world markets. Using a partial-equilibrium, multi-market, international model, the authors analyze the trade and welfare …-South dimension with policies in India, and to a lesser extent China, heavily depressing the world prices of groundnut products at the … products in OECD countries would be worse off. The authors draw implications for the Doha negotiations. …

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