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Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Porto, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA...

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

schooling and decline in child labor. These trends were attenuated in communities where employment was concentrated in …

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Trade Liberalization and the Wage Skill Premium: Evidence from Indonesia

Amiti, Mary; Cameron, Lisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In this paper, we analyze the effect of reducing import tariffs on intermediate inputs and final goods on the wage … reducing input tariffs reduces the wage skill premium within firms that import their intermediate inputs. However, we do not … find significant effects from reducing tariffs on final goods on the wage skill premium within firms. …

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What Do We Really Know About Protection Before The Great Depression: Evidence From Italy

Federico, Giovanni; Vasta, Michelangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The impact of protection on economic growth is one of the traditional issues in economic history, which has enjoyed a revival in recent times, with the publication of a number of comparative quantitative papers. They all share a common weakness: they measure protection with the ratio of custom...

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Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence

Broda, Christian; Limão, Nuno; Weinstein, David E. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to export elasticities goes back over a century to the writings of Edgeworth (1894) and Bickerdike (1907). Despite the optimal tariff argument's centrality in debates over trade policy, there exists no evidence...

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Lobbying competition over trade policy

Gawande, Kishore; Krishna, Pravin; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The theoretical structure underlying the empirical...

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Integration, Trade Policy and European Footwear Trade

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper constructs a simulation model of the EC footwear market with which to consider the effects of EC trade policies. It examines the Southern enlargement of the EC, the quotas imposed on Korean and Taiwanese sales - initially in France and Italy and subsequently, in line with the `1992'...

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Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Trade: Evidence From Agriculture

Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper empirically explores the political-economic determinants of why governments choose to tax or subsidize trade in agriculture. We use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the last four decades for 64 countries. NRAs measure the...

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Tying, Risk-Sharing, and `Lock-In': An Investigation of Countertrade Contracts

Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

The paper sees countertrade - the tying of trade flows - as an insurance contract that mitigates contractual hazards and reduces the incentive for ex post `hold-up' when parties are `locked' in a relationship after they have made specific investment. This way tying is seen as a commitment device...

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Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe's Transition: Early Results

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

By the end of 1991, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland had achieved a substantial degree of openness to foreign trade. In all three countries, trade is now demonopolized and licensing and quotas play a very small role. Exchange controls have virtually disappeared for current-account...

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