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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks

Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995

This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any …

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Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2016

This paper develops a theoretical foundation for the social cost of carbon (SCC). The model highlights the source of debate over whether countries should use the global or domestic SCC for regulatory impact analysis. I identify conditions under which a country's decision to internalize the...

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The Value of MFN Treatment

Ghosh, Madanmohan - 1998

We discuss most favoured nation (MFN) treatment in trade agreements, suggesting that its value to individual countries depends critically on the relevant model solution concept used to evaluate it. We analyze both rights to MFN treatment in foreign markets, and the obligation to grant MFN...

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Multilateralising Regionalism : Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade

Baldwin, Richard - 2006

motley assortment of regional trade agreements is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade … and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world …

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Regionalism versus multilateral trade arrangements

Itō, Takatoshi (ed.); Krueger, Anne O. (contributor) - 1997

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Assessing the Benefits to Developing Countries of Liberalization in Services Trade

Whalley, John - 2003

This paper discusses the potential impacts of services trade liberalization on developing countries and reviews existing quantitative studies. Its purpose is to distill themes from current literature rather than to advocate specific policy changes. The picture emerging is one of valiant attempts...

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Trade Liberalization and Growth : New Evidence

Wacziarg, Romain - 2003

This paper revisits the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic integration and economic growth. First, we present an updated dataset of openness indicators and trade liberalization dates for a wide cross-section of countries in the 1990s. Second, we extend the Sachs and Warner...

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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Consistent with this claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage discount for lower skilled workers, using matched...

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Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s

Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2008

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries? growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If "getting policies right" is wrong or infeasible,...

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The Rush to Free Trade in the Developing World : Why So Late? Why Now? Will it Last?

Rodrik, Dani - 1992

This paper asks why developing country policymakers have been so reluctant to undertake trade reform until the 1980s, and why many of them have embraced open trade policies so wholeheartedly since then. To answer these questions, the paper develops a heuristic index of the "political...

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