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NAFTA's and CUSFTA's Impact on International Trade

Romalis, John - 2005

This paper identifies the effects of preferential trade agreements on trade volumes and prices using detailed trade and tariff data. It identifies demand elasticities by developing a difference in differences based method that exploits the fact that the additional wedge driven between...

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Anti-Competitive and Rent-Shifting Aspects of Domestic-Content Provisions in Regional Trade Blocks

Lopez-de-Silane, Florencio - 1993

Regional trade agreements must specify domestic-content rules (rules of origin) that define the conditions under which a good qualifies as 'domestic' and so may be freely traded within the block. The paper analyzes such rules, focussing in particular on oligopolistic industries in which foreign...

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Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles : Evaluating a Strategic TradePolicy

Berry, Steven - 1995

In May, 1981, a voluntary export restraint (VER) was placed on exports of automobiles from Japan to the United States. As trade policies go, this one was important. At about the same time, though to much less fanfare, international trade theorists were obtaining (then) startling results from...

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains

Steinbach, Sandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature … for a balanced panel of 159 countries for 2001 to 2017. I study the relationship for 781 agricultural and food products … a primary source of international risk exposure for global food supply chains …

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Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Under NAFTA

Krueger, Anne O. - 1999

Aggregate and more micro data on trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are used to attempt to assess the early effects of Mexican entry into NAFTA. Although the fraction of Mexican trade with the U.S. and Canada has risen sharply, a number of factors have contributed to this result. Mexican...

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The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Kovak, Brian K.; Morrow, Peter M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper assesses the long-run effects of the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) on the Canadian labor market using matched longitudinal administrative data for the years 1984-2004. We simultaneously examine the labor market effects of increased export expansion and import...

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Local economic and political effects of trade deals : evidence from NAFTA

Choi, Jiwon; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Washington, Ebonya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Why have white, less educated voters left the Democratic Party over the past few decades? Scholars have proposed ethnocentrism, social issues and deindustrialization as potential answers. We highlight the role played by the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In event-study...

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The Economics and Politics of Revoking NAFTA

Auer, Raphael - 2018

We provide a quantitative assessment of both the aggregate and the distributional effects of revoking NAFTA using a multi-country, multi-sector, multi-factor model of world production and trade with global input-output linkages. Revoking NAFTA would reduce US welfare by about 0.2%, and Canadian...

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Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA

McLaren, John - 2010

Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages. We look for effects of the agreement by industry and by geography, measuring each industry's vulnerability to Mexican imports, and each locality's dependance on vulnerable industries. We find evidence of both effects,...

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Openness and Industrial Responses in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers

Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2006

This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to...

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