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Krishna, Kala - 2005

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Firm Behavior and Market Access in a Free Trade Area with Rules of Origin

Ju, Jiandong - 1998

We develop a model to study the behavior of firms in a Free Trade Area with Rules of Origin and the consequences of this behavior on the market equilibrium and outcome. We show that firms will choose to specialize, and that an FTA with strict ROOs on the intermediate good raises imports and...

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Market Access and Welfare Effects of Free Trade Areas without Rules of Origin

Ju, Jiandong - 1996

The market access and welfare effects of Free Trade Areas (FTAs) without Rules of Origin (ROOs) are studied. We consider both the final and intermediate goods markets and their interlinkage. The FTA weakly reduces all tariffs and prices within the FTA. This raises quantity demanded and reduces...

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Implementing Free Trade Areas : Rules of Origin and Hidden Protection

Krishna, Kala - 1995

This paper focuses on the effects of rules of origin in Free Trade Areas. We first point out that even rules of origin which are not restrictive, namely those which do not raise costs of production, have very pronounced effects on trade and investment flows. We then look at some different ways...

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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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Free Trade Agreements as Protectionist Devices : Rules of Origin

Krueger, Anne O. - 1993

In this paper it is argued that there is an important protectionist bias inherent in free trade agreements which is not present in custom unions. In any customs union or free trade agreement, one of the critical issues concerns "rules of origin." In a free trade agreement rules of origin have an...

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Does "Made in China 2025" Work for China? : Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms

Branstetter, Lee; Li, Guangwei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Rising concern over the impact of Chinese industrial policy has led to severe trade tensions between China and some of its major trading partners. In recent years, foreign criticism has increasingly focused on the so-called "Made in China 2025" initiative. In this paper, we use information...

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The Bail-In Problem : Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means

Eichengreen, Barry - 2000

, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …

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Effect of an Abrupt Change in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy on Adolescent Birth Rates in Ecuador, 2008–2017

Galárraga, Omar - 2019

policy change in Ecuador that abruptly reversed course for reproductive health services for adolescent women in 2014. In a … difference-in-differences analysis of age-specific birth rates in Ecuador's 221 cantons, we find that the abrupt policy change …

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International Trade and Earnings Inequality : A New Factor Content Approach

Adão, Rodrigo - 2020

unique administrative data from Ecuador, our approach yields measures of individual-level exposure to exports and imports …. We find that international trade raises earnings inequality in Ecuador, especially in the upper-half of the income … distribution. However, the drop in inequality experienced by Ecuador over the last decade would have been less pronounced in the …

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