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Conflict and Cooperation in International Economic Policy and Law.

Stern, R.M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1997

This paper explores a number of conceptual issues that are germane to the analysis of conflict and cooperation in international economic policy and law. The focus is on issues involving conflict and cooperation that have been treated in the theory of international trade, in particular departures...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357193

Measurement and Modeling of the Economic Effects of Trade and Investment Barriers in Services.

Brown, D.K.; Stern, R.M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1999

In this paper, we adapt the latest version of the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to incorporate relationships and data for cross-border services trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the major developed and developing countries subsumed in the model's structure and database.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357217

An Economist's Overview of the World Trade Organisation.

Deardorff, A.V. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1996

The paper provides a brief overview of the new World Trade Organization, successor to the GATT as the arbiter of cooperation in matters of international trade policy.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146464

Some Economic Effects of the Free Trade Agreement Between Tunisia and the European Union.

Deardorff, A.V.; Brown, D.K.; Stern, R.M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1996

We use a special constructed version of the Michigan Brown-Deardorff-Stern (BDS) Computational General Equilibrium (CGE) Model of World production and Trade to estimate the potential economic effects on the Tunisian economy that may result from the free trade agreement (FTA) between Tunisia and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146473

Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Strategic Trade Policy.

Berry, S.; Linsohn, J.; Pakes, A. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1997

In May, 1981, a voluntary export restraint (VER) was placed on exports of automobiles from Japan to the United States …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146490

Developing Country Interests in the Forthcoming WTO Negotiations.

Stern, R.M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2000

This paper reviews the main issues in the forthcoming WTO negotiations, including: a review of the accomplishments of the Uruguay Round and the multilateral negotiations that have since followed; identification and analysis of Uruguay Round built-in agenda issues and new issues that may possibly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146496

Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms

Héricourt, Jérôme; Poncet, Sandra - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more … this negative impact, especially on the intensive margin of export. These results provide micro-founded evidence suggesting …

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Carwars: Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets.

Levinsohn, J. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1996

The story line a recent trade frictions between the U.S. and Japan in the auto market goes as follow. Initially, there was not much trade Japanese cars were made in Japan with mostly Japanese parts and the same was mostly true of North American cars.

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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries

Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - CESifo - 2008

We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break intoexport markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406245

Trade and Labor Standards.

Brown, K.D.; Deardorff, A.V.; Stern, R.M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1997

There is a wide disparity of views on issues of international labor standards. The purpose of this paper is to explore these different views and the available options for addressing the issues involved. We conclude that there is no convincing case for incorporating labor standards into the WTO...

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