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China, GMOs and World Trade in Agricultural and Textile Products

Anderson, Kym; Yao, Shunli - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

China has always strived for self-sufficiency in farm products, particularly staple foods. Its rapid industrialization following its opening up to global markets during the past two decades has been making that more difficult, and its accession to the WTO may add to that difficulty. New...

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GM Food Crop Technology: Implications For Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Jackson, Lee Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

economic effects of adopting both types of innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It does so using the global economy …

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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

Kyle, Margaret K; McGahan, Anita M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical … Trade Organization, has increased levels of patent protection around the world. Since patents also have the potential to … patent laws and the severity of disease, we test the hypothesis that increased patent protection results in greater drug …

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What Do We Really Know About Protection Before The Great Depression: Evidence From Italy

Federico, Giovanni; Vasta, Michelangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The impact of protection on economic growth is one of the traditional issues in economic history, which has enjoyed a revival in recent times, with the publication of a number of comparative quantitative papers. They all share a common weakness: they measure protection with the ratio of custom...

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Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Trade: Evidence From Agriculture

Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper empirically explores the political-economic determinants of why governments choose to tax or subsidize trade in agriculture. We use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the last four decades for 64 countries. NRAs measure the...

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The Trade Strategy of the European Union: Time for a Rethink?

Evenett, Simon J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The European Union is the world's largest trader, a fact that on the face of it ought to convert into considerable clout in international commercial negotiations. Yet, since the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) creation in 1995, it is difficult to point to a string of successes for the...

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Trade, Wages and the Political Economy of Trade Protection: Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Pavcnik, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Worker industry affiliation plays a crucial role in how trade policy affects wages in many trade models. Yet, most research has focused on how trade policy affects wages by altering the economy-wide returns to a specific worker characteristic (i.e. skill or education) rather than through...

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Reciprocity and the Political Economy of Harmonization and Mutual Recognition of Regulatory Measures

Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper discusses the issue of regulatory protectionism and its implication for reciprocity and international bargaining on regulation. In a simple two way trade model a la Brander and Spencer, we take into account the three following features of regulatory measures: a) a regulation raises...

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Optimal trade policy with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms

Haaland, Jan I.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper derives optimal trade and domestic taxes for a small open economy containing a monopolistically competitive (MC) sector in which firms may have heterogeneous productivity levels. Domestic protection brings gains from expanding the number of product varieties on offer, but these gains...

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Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization

Costinot, Arnaud; Rodriguez-Clare, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying theme of our survey is methodological. We rely on gravity models and demonstrate how they can be used for counterfactual analysis. We highlight how various economic...

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