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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions
Nashashibi, Karim - 1974
In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...
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Trade and Investment in the Global Economy
Anderson, James E. - 2017
actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9\% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …
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Government Policies in a Granular Global Economy
Gaubert, Cecile; Itskhoki, Oleg; Vogler, Maximilian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use the granular model of international trade developed in Gaubert and Itskhoki (2020) to study the rationale and implications of three types of government interventions typically targeted at large individual firms -- antitrust, trade and industrial policies. We find that in antitrust...
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Trade and Empire
Mitchener, Kris James - 2008
Although many modern studies find large and significant effects of prior colonial status on bilateral trade, there is very little empirical research that has focused on the contemporaneous impact of empire on trade. We employ a new database of over 21,000 bilateral trade observations during the...
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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks
Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995
This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market...
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Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … illustrates that, statically, globalization (defined as reduced trade barriers) has ambiguous effects on welfare, while …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …
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Trade, Variety, and Immigration
Bo, Chen - 2012
What are the gains from international trade? And how do immigrants influence this process? While economists have considered these questions before, particularly in the context of aggregate trade flows, there has been no work assessing the relation between immigration and international trade in...
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International Finance
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1986
time, the definition of external balance has evolved in response to changes in the world economy's structure. The foreign …
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The International Monetary and Financial System
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2019
International currencies fulfill different roles in the world economy with important synergies across those roles. We …
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Disputes in International Investment and Trade
Ossa, Ralph - 2020
International investment agreements employ dispute settlement procedures that differ markedly from their counterparts in trade agreements along three key dimensions: standing (i.e., the right to file grievances), the nature of the remedy, and the remedial period. In the state-to-state dispute...
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