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This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, we extend the protection for sale' model to allow for different...
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for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade … large trade value and a low elasticity of substitution; and for trade pairs that command a large share of the German import …
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export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect … counterfactual experiments to assess quantitatively the positive and normative effects of barriers to trade in import and export …. Furthermore, because of import and export complementarities, policies which inhibit the importation of foreign intermediates can …
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source country deviates from the reported import value in the destination country. Analyzing 4-digit product level data for …
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introduction of a carbon import tariff increases global welfare (and not just the welfare of the importing country) if there is no … (or insufficient) pricing of carbon abroad. A higher domestic price of carbon justifies a higher import tariff. Moreover …, a higher relative intensity of carbon abroad increases the desirability of high import tariff imposed by the home …
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This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …
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Uncertainty about the level of demand is thought to influence irreversible capacity decisions. This paper examines some implications of the theory literature on this topic in an empirical study of the US cement industry between 1994 and 2006. Firms in this sector have the ability to deliver...
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blocs act strategically in fossil fuel markets. When the policy bloc sets a carbon tax, the fuel import price set by the … fringe also gains from reduced fuel import prices, and gains more when the policy bloc is larger. When the policy bloc sets …
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We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our approach uses a compositional multinomial logit model, in which currency choice depends on the characteristics of both the currency and the country. We use unique quarterly panel...
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of partial US sanctions decreases trade by 16 percent. When complete export and import sanctions are implemented, US …, respectively. In contrast, the application of partial export and import sanctions leads to a decrease in trade by 13 percent and 17 …
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