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tariff cuts negotiated under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affected …What causes U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada to continue growing faster, for up to a decade, relative to countries … with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement? Baier and Bergstrand (2007) suggest that tariff phase-out and …
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We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The …-style approach to trade and the environment, its full potential has not yet been exploited. We discuss existing empirical and …
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role in the determination of collective choices with respect to the regulation of the environment and of trade. We conclude … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment-trade …We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general …
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The Brazil-Taxation dispute concerns the complaints taken to the World Trade Organisation by the European Union and … can be exempted from complying with National Treatment rules under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the …
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Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and … investments, which in turn prompts it to increase taxes next period. This induces low investment thus low future taxes, and so on …
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Using the Panama Papers, we show that the beginning of media reporting on expropriations and property confiscations in a country increases the probability that offshore entities are incorporated by agents from the same country in the same month. This result is robust to the use of country-year...
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experienced higher levels of agricultural productivity in 1841 and 1852 as well as more investment in irrigation and more …
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We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …
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2019, the existence of the entire North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is at risk if the United States withdraws - a … agreement, we examine the general equilibrium trade and welfare effects of the elimination of NAFTA (and for robustness U … international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major …
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This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants’ prices and …
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