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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...

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Asia’s Growth, the Changing Geography of World Trade, and Food Security: Projections to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

spread to the much more populous ASEAN region, China and India. This paper examines how that growth and associated structural …

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Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

the growth rates of China and India are lower by one-quarter, and the other in which this slowdown in emerging economies …

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …

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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Khandelwal, Amit; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …

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Why is Trade Reform So Unpopular?

Fernández, Raquel; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Despite the well known gains from trade, trade liberalization is one of the most politically contentious actions that a government can undertake. We propose and formalize a new explanation of this unpopularity. The explanation is based on uncertainty and is complementary to the usual...

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The Multilateral Trade Agenda: Uruguay Round Implementation and Beyond

Francois, Joseph; McDonald, Brad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

In this paper we provide a quantitative examination of initiatives for post-Uruguay Round liberalization in ‘traditional’ GATT/WTO market access areas, as a counterpoint to the recent policy literature on newer issues such as the environment, competition policy, and labour standards. We...

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Commercial Policy and Dynamic Adjustment Under Monopolistic Competition

Keuschnigg, Christian; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We assess some likely consequences of commercial policy in an intertemporal CGE model of an imperfectly competitive, small open economy. Specifically, we combine an overlapping generations model of aggregate savings with capital accumulation by forward-looking investors and production under...

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Trade Liberalization and Developing Countries Under the Doha Round

Francois, Joseph; van Meijl, Hans; van Tongeren, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We explore the impact of multilateral liberalization, with emphasis on distributional effects across countries. We first develop a realistic ‘baseline’ that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of the EU, allowing us to focus on those effects...

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Convergence, Competitiveness and the Exchange Rate

Boltho, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Standard theory predicts that exchange rate changes have merely temporary real effects. Yet, if the higher profits that a devaluation ensures are used to improve non-price competitiveness, longer-run effects are possible. The paper looks at the experience of Germany, Spain, France and Italy...

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