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This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between exports and imports of the Iranian economy by employing bounds test approach to level relationship. In Iran, there have been many unusual policy changes and/or external shocks to the economy which resulted in the occurrence of...
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This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …
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We explore the uses of double-calibrated general equilibrium models as a decomposition tool for analysing contributory factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to start and end years, based upon an assumed functional...
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This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market … distributions are asymmetric because the foreign firm incurs a trade cost to serve the domestic market. We show that the foreign …, justifying the use of contingent trade policy on efficiency grounds. Despite an environment of asymmetric information, contingent …
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This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and … diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (`brand equity'), whereas trade through an … trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of …
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We develop a new model of trade in which educational institutions drive comparative advantage and determine the … support of human capital choices to demonstrate that freer trade can induce crowding out of the middle occupations towards the … gains from trade may be non-monotonic in workers' ability, and middle ability agents can lose the most from trade …
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submitting a wide range of trade-related policies to international scrutiny and by entering into binding commitments on the …
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This paper discusses possible strategies for developing countries in negotiations on trade in services in the ongoing …
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