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The Cost of EU Trade Protection in Textiles and Clothing
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700596
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Multilateralism and regionalism from an American perspective: Parallels and contrasts with the Langhammer vision
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
. This could still leave a bright future for the WTO as a house of plurilaterals, i.e., agreements on specific issues such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956074
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The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage
Khalilian, Setareh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for … heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only … unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to structure WTO provisions and WTO case rulings so that their application …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566201
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The expansion of intra-Asian trade: an analysis of structural patterns and determinants
Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub-regions within Asia. Beyond a general trend towards manufactures, it reveals remarkable differences in specialisation profiles between lagging South Asian countries still concentrating on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276242
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Deep trade policy options for Armenia: The importance of trade facilitation, services and standards liberalization
Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278224
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany. First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076112
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Fair, Optimal or Detrimental? Environmental vs. Strategic Use of Border Carbon Adjustment
Weitzel, Matthias; Hübler, Michael; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
We carry out a detailed sensitivity analysis of border carbon adjustment (rates) by applying a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) GTAP7-based model. We find different incentives for the regions in the climate coalition to raise carbon-based border tax rates (BTAX) above the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886854
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Learning How to Export
Segerstrom, Paul S.; Stepanok, Ignat - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886938
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Contingent Trade Policy and Economic Efficiency
McCalman, Phillip; Stähler, Frank; Willmann, Gerald - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market between one domestic and one foreign firm as a pricing game under incomplete information about production costs. The cost distributions are asymmetric because the foreign firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886945
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Private Labels and International Trade: Trading Variety for Volume
Blanchard, Emily; Chesnokova, Tatyana; Willmann, Gerald - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
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 intermediary can take two forms — either a...
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