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We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing … yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality in Heckscher …
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of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …
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This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large … class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high …-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade cannot prevent the export of tainted products, and the condition fortainting …
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We examine interaction between trade in goods and market power in domestic trade and distribution, developing a model … that highlights this interaction. Theory points to an expected linkage between service sector competition and goods trade … significant linkages between effective market access conditions for goods and the structure of the service sector. Because of the …
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future Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between theenlarged EU and Russia. The paper uses Computable General Equilibrium …
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This paper is concerned with the interaction of regulated efficiency and World Trade Organization (WTO) accession and …
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We study the optimal trade policy against a foreign oligopoly withendogenous quality. We show that, under the Most … Favoured Nation(MFN) clause, a uniform tariff policy is always welfare improvingover the free trade equilibrium. However, a … low-quality product and a tax onhigh-quality one. Another example of such a nonuniform tariff policyis a Regional Trade …
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countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization …
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income. The unique (risk-dominant) Nash equilibrium involvesintra-industry trade where the foreign producer manufactures a … to a quality reversalin the international market, which gives a rationale for the domestic government to enact ADlaw. We …
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We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economieshave increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentivesof oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumpingmay be due to...
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