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competition. Our Doha scenarios include agriculture, manufactures, and services liberalization, and trade facilitation. With … first develop a realistic "base1ine" that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the … enlargement of the EU, allowing us to focus on those effects that are specifically attributable to further trade liberalization in …
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countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. We … WTO-based concern. …
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Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved tariff-cutting formulas … approaches under the Doha Development Agenda. This paper surveys a range of formula options and examines both targeted and … target how far they will move towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading off reductions in peak tariffs …
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This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. We …
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of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …
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Today’s global world is characterized not only by a high volume of international trade and foreign investment relative … to national income, but also by a changed composition of that trade towards a greater fraction of trade in inputs and …
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The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenous
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The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy with heterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features: <OL> <LI>heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital; <LI>intergenerational transfers,...</li></li></ol>
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This study aims to explain the variation in empirical estimates in the literature on the elasticity of foreign direct investment with respect to company tax levels. To that end, we extend the meta analysis of De Mooij and Ederveen (2003) by considering an alternative classification of the...
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This paper presents suggestive evidence of income shifting in response to differences in corporate tax rates for a large selection of OECD countries. We use a new method to disentangle the income shifting effects from the effects of tax rates on real activity. Our baseline estimates suggest that...
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