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manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general component suppliers in both countries, and on a detailed benchmarking …
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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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to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs … conducts a “horse race” between export opportunities and import competition. Using Spanish firm level data, instrumenting for … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import …
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This paper reviews the theoretical and the empirical literature on regionalism. The formation of regional trade agreements has been, by far, the most popular form of reciprocal trade liberalization in the last fifteen years. The discriminatory character of these agreements has raised three main...
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We study the impact of import protection on relationship-specific investments, organizational choice and welfare. We …
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domestic market. A counterfactual analysis suggests that eliminating these subsidies would result in a welfare gain for China …
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from the 2002 wave of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey collected by the World Bank for China. The … exporters’, firms exporting all their output, observed in China, from 25.7% in 2002 to 11.1% in 2013. Our results indicate that … in China increases by 1.76% while real income in the rest of the world falls by 0.59%. …
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This paper exploits the surge in Chinese exports from 1994 to 2004 as a natural experiment toevaluate the effects of a unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. Wefind that this shock causes selection at both firm and product levels as its impact is...
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A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much … concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing … import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …
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I develop a novel theory of GATT/WTO negotiations. This theory provides new answers to two prominent questions in the trade policy literature: first, what is the purpose of trade negotiations? And second, what is the role played by the fundamental GATT/WTO principles of reciprocity and...
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