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Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved tariff-cutting formulas … target how far they will move towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading off reductions in peak tariffs …
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Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines, such as WTO tariff bindings and bindings on market access in services, constrain this variability. We examine the theoretical effects of such constraints on the expected cost of protection and offer...
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This paper addresses the final steps to global free trade – what they might look like, what sort of political economy … here to stay; world trade is regulated by a motley assortment of unilateral, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements; 2 …) this motley assortment is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade will require a …
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continuum of goods to show that trade liberalization causes higher unemployment in countries with comparative advantage in … contradicting evidence in the empirical literature on the impact of trade on unemployment. …
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This Paper assesses the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin American countries. The basic framework is one developed by Grossman and Helpman (1994) that is extended to explain the relationship between foreign lobbying and tariff...
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This Paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are corrupt. We build a model highlighting the contribution of surveillance firms to the generation of...
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The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital … when RTAs are signed between countries that already engage in high volumes of trade. Stock markets also rise more when …
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, sequential exporting has novel policy implications: a reduction in trade barriers has delayed effects, while also promoting entry … in third markets. This trade externality poses challenges for the quantification of the effects of trade liberalization … programs and implies that the consequences of international trade agreements are significantly richer than traditional models …
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Antidumping actions in the United States and EU are known to be linked to macroeconomic conditions. In part, this is …
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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 worker-industry affiliation. This Paper exploits drastic trade …
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