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Reconciling observed tariffs and the median voter model

Dhingra, Swati - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

-abundant countries. As expected, terms of trade effects raise tariffs across all countries and are stronger among non-members of the WTO. …

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The auto-component supply chain in China and India: a benchmark study

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which Chinese and Indian autocomponent producers have advanced towards international best practice levels of productivity and quality. The report is based on a survey of nine car manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general...

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The 'emulator effect' of the Uruguay round on US regionalism

Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners...

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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change

Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets, other papers stress the...

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Capitalist divination: popularist-speculators and technologies of imagination on the Hooghly River

Bear, Laura - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Economic theory and technocratic policy have long understood economic action to be a communicative activity. From Laplace and Adam Smith to current liberalisation fiscal policy in India designed to produce price signals and entrepreneurial behaviour this conceptualisation has been dominant....

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Hundi/hawala: the problem of definition

Martin, Marina B.V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

In contemporary times, hundi has collected countless labels; the international press has spurned innumerable villainous descriptions, the bulk of which have helped to perpetuate a dense fog of notoriety. The critical problem lies in definition. As there is an incomplete understanding of hundi's...

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Urbanizing refuge: interrogating spaces of displacement

Sanyal, Romola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Refugee spaces are emerging as quintessential geographies of the modern, yet their intimate and everyday spatialities remain under-explored. Rendered largely through geopolitical discourses, they are seen as biopolitical spaces where the sovereign can reduce the subject to bare life. In...

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Protection and international sourcing

Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We study the impact of import protection on relationship-specific investments, organizational choice and welfare. We show that a tariff on intermediate inputs can improve social welfare through mitigating hold-up problems. It does so if it discriminates in favor of the investing party, thereby...

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Free trade agreements and the consolidation of democracy

Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy. Our model shows that FTAs can critically reduce the incentive of authoritarian groups to seek power by destroying protectionist rents, thus making democracies last longer. This...

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A 'new trade' theory of GATT/WTO negotiations

Ossa, Ralph - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

I develop a novel theory of GATT/WTO negotiations. This theory provides new answers to two prominent questions in the … fundamental GATT/WTO principles of reciprocity and nondiscrimination? Relative to the standard terms-of-trade theory of GATT/WTO … model and therefore sheds new light on GATT/WTO negotiations between similar countries. Second, it relies on a production …

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