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Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs and Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia

Amiti, Mary; Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we …

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Income convergence across asian economies : an empirical exploration

Ghatak, Sunetra; De, Prabir - In: Journal of Asia Pacific business 22 (2021) 3, pp. 182-200

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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

Konings, Jozef; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

employment growth and of size and job reallocation. Finally, we establish that strong foreign trade links force firms to shed … labour more aggressively and to engage in more restructuring when trade is directed to and originating from Western economies …. This disciplining function is absent when the trade flows are confined to CIS countries. …

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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment

Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …

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Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C; Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

It is often alleged that PTAs involving the EC and the US include a significant number of obligations in areas not currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition policy, labour standards and environmental protection. The primary purpose of this study is...

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Import Diversion under European Antidumping Policy

Konings, Jozef; Springael, Linda; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

imports. We find that trade diversion in the European Union caused by antidumping actions - in contrast to the US - is limited … for selection-bias in the antidumping investigation procedure. A number of explanations for this difference in trade …

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Economic and Legal Aspects of the Most Favoured Nation Clause

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Most-Favored Nation clause (MFN) forbids Members of a trade agreement to discriminate between trading partners. It … agreements in the World Trade Organization. There seems to be a rather widespread belief among policy makers that there are …

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Antidumping Protection hurts Exporters: Firm-level evidence from France

Konings, Jozef; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper empirically evaluates the effects of antidumping measures on the exports of protected firms. While antidumping protection raises the domestic sales of the more “traditional” non-exporting firms on the protected market with about 5%, it negatively affects the firm-level exports of...

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Does Antidumping Protection Raise Market Power? Evidence from Firm Level Data

Konings, Jozef; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

, while in industries with positive mark-ups before protection, trade policy raises market power between 3% points and 15 …

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The Time WTO Panels Require to Issue Reports

Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Almost all WTO dispute panels exceed their statutory time limits. This is often seen to indicate a more general problem for panels to manage their tasks. The time required varies considerably across panels however, suggesting that they do not face the same problems. To shed light on these...

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