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This paper examines implications of the terms-of-trade theory for the determinants of outcomes arising under the enforcement provisions of international agreements. Like original trade agreement negotiations, we model formal trade dispute negotiations as potentially addressing the terms-of-trade...
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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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dimensions of export performance. Over the 1999-2006 time period we study, Canadian firms successfully diversified their exports … to destinations beyond the United States and smaller firms increased their share of total exports. Both of these … margin, boosting the average level of exports to given product-destination markets. Effects at the extensive margins of trade …
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indication of China moving up the quality ladder in its clothing exports relative to the EU. While European ‘core’ products in … clothing are stable over time, Chinese exports show strong product dynamics with exit and entry of new ‘core’ products every …
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difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the Pesticides Initiative Program on exports of fresh fruits and vegetables …. We use a unique firm-level dataset containing data on sales, employment, and exports by product and destination markets … exports pooled over all products and destinations, it had a positive effect when considering fresh fruits and vegetables …
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towards targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the …
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Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...
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For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa hampered farmers’ contributions to economic growth and poverty reduction. While there has been much policy reform over the past two decades, the injections of agricultural development funding, together with on-going...
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Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners...
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subsidies on exports and imports. We find that both economic and political variables play important roles in determining the …
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