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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A firm-level analysis

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high productivity to entering foreign markets, as...

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The Spread of Antidumping Regimes and the Role of Retaliation in Filings

Feinberg, Robert M.; Olson, Kara M. - EconWPA - 2004

Over the past decade, the world-wide use of antidumping has become very widespread – 41 WTO-member countries initiated … antidumping cases over the 1995-2003 period. From another perspective, US exporters were subjected to 139 antidumping cases during … antidumping filings may be motivated as retaliation against similar measures imposed on a country’s exporters. This is the focus …

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Tariff Liberalization and Increased Administrative Protection: Is There a Quid Pro Quo?

Feinberg, Robert M.; Olson, Kara M. - EconWPA - 2005

through administrative procedures such as antidumping enforcement will increase as more traditional forms such as tariffs and … liberalization in the spread of antidumping. Through both correlations and regression approaches we analyze the relationship between … tariff concessions made during the Uruguay Round trade negotiations and the filing of antidumping petitions, with particular …

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Anticipated versus Realized Benefits: Can Event Studies Be Used To Predict the Impact of New Regulations?

Reynolds, Kara M. - EconWPA - 2005

Economists often use event study methodology to evaluate the impact of new regulations on firms before there is enough data to empirically estimate the effects. This research investigates the degree to which event study methodology can provide useful information in this regard by studying how...

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REMOVAL OF PROTECTIONISM, FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND WELFARE IN A MODEL OF INFORMAL SECTOR

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukherjee, Ujjaini - EconWPA - 2005

The paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model with two informal sectors with complete mobility of labour between these sectors and with a positive relationship between wage income and labour's efficiency to show that the results relating to foreign capital inflow and removal of...

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DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY AND GLOBAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN AGRICULTURE: A NOTE

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

In a production structure reasonable for a developing economy this note shows that there may arise a conflict between the worldwide liberalized trade policies in agriculture, which raise the price of the economy’s primary exportable commodity, and the inflow of foreign capital into the...

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Endogenous Globalization and Income Divergence

Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a growth theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class conflicts, and global income divergence over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional effects of international trade, this paper finds a prominent...

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Commercial Policy Variability, Bindings, and Market Access

Francois, Joseph; Martin, Will - EconWPA - 2002

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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Seasonal Fluctuations and International Trade

Kaneda, Mitsuhiro; Mehrez, Gil - EconWPA - 1998

This paper argues that seasonal fluctuations in international trade are large and have non-trivial effects on a country's resource allocation, production, and welfare. Using U.S. quarterly data, we find fluctuations of as much as 43% and 15% for apparel imports and exports respectively, and 7%...

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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of trade liberalization can only be properly analysed in a CGE model. However, the aggregate nature of CGE models is not suited to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by...

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