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New Shades of Protectionism and the Role of Multinationals

Francois, Joseph; Stöllinger, Roman - FIW - 2009

wholesale descent into protectionism in this respect. However, in other policy areas, such as state aid and WTO contingency … disciplines on subsides. While this is not classical protectionism offered to strictly national industries, we may see a new …

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Sorting It Out: Technical Barriers to Trade and Industry Productivity

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Jung, Benjamin - FIW - 2008

Trade economists traditionally study the effect of lower variable trade costs. While increasingly important politically, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) have received less attention. Viewing TBTs as fixed regulatory costs related to the entry into export markets, we use a model with...

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Do "green" state measures make import patterns "climate-friendly"? The case of the Asia-Pacific region

Wermelinger, Martin - FIW - 2012

This paper estimates to what extent "green" crisis-era measures have an impact on the "climate-friendliness" of imports in the Asia-Pacific region. Testable predictions and the empirical strategy are derived from the seminal paper of Eaton and Kortum (2002). The empirical results show that at...

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Heterogeneity and the Distance Puzzle

Archanskaia, Elizaveta; Daudin, Guillaume - FIW - 2012

This paper shows that reduced heterogeneity of exporter-specific goods can provide a direct explanation of the distance puzzle. Using COMTRADE 4-digit bilateral trade data we find that the elasticity of trade to distance has increased by 8% from 1962 to 2009. Theoretical foundations of the...

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Strategic Trade Policy in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium

Colacicco, Rudy - FIW - 2013

, cross-sector protectionism generates a reduction in the foreign wage without affecting the domestic wage. Domestic …

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Assessing the impact of European Integration on sectoral trade in services

Behncke, Nadine - FIW - 2013

The present paper contributes to the existing literature analyzing the relationship between intra EU trade in services and European Integration by taking into consideration a potential endogeneity bias of the EU dummy and a correct specification of multilateral resistance terms in a panel data...

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Determinants of Comparative Advantage in Services

Marel, Erik van der - FIW - 2012

This paper analyzes whether and to what extent determinants of comparative advantage have explanatory power for conventional services trade. It assesses the geographical, Heckscher-Ohlin and institutional determinants of services trade based on the literature for goods trade. Moreover, this...

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China's Pure Exporter Subsidies

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - FIW - 2013

One third of Chinese exporters sell more than ninety percent of their production abroad. We argue that this distinctive pattern is attributable to the widespread use of subsidies that require firms to export the vast majority of their output. We study this type of subsidy in the context of a...

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Trade Patterns and Export Pricing Under Non-CES Preferences

Kichko, Sergey; Kokovin, Sergey; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - FIW - 2013

We develop a two-factor, two-sector trade model of monopolistic competition with variable elasticity of substitution. Firm profit and firm size may increase or decrease with market integration depending on the degree of asymmetry between countries. The country in which capital is relatively...

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The EU-Ukraine trade liberalization: How much do the costs of tariff elimination matter?

Frey, Miriam; Olekseyuk, Zoryana - FIW - 2013

developing countries face some costs associated with trade liberalization, this paper contributes to the literature by analyzing … trade liberalization, as the results vary significantly across the scenarios. In general, we find that tariff elimination … accession. The effects can even be negative if the country tries to refinance the trade liberalization costs by means of tax …

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