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realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … a percentage point of GDP. Taken together, these results indicate that a realignment of global growth -- with Japan and …
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Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
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Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
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By 1981, Japan achieved both internal and external equilibrium; exports and imports roughly balanced at sixteen percent …
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The bilateral relationship with Japan now dominates American thinking on the benefits and costs of foreign trade. This … paper reevaluates the past and future course of U.S.-Japan economic relations. It identifies six distinct aspects of the … relationship that may underlie the continuing friction: bilateral imbalance on merchandise trade, capital flows from Japan to the …
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Consider migration to a higher income region as a human capital investment in which parents bear migration costs and children share returns. Migrants from a population with heterogeneous intergenerational discount rates will be self-selected on intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be...
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Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...
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Delays at the border for customs clearance are seemingly a central feature of the trade regime in the CIS states. Here, we argue that with queuing costs being endogenously determined in such circumstances tariff liberalization (even in the small economy case) can be welfare worsening since...
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During the past five years, there has been an important debate over the differing styles of market reforms in the formerly planned economies in East Asia versus Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (EEFSU). This paper puts forward three related propositions. First, the rapid growth of East...
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