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Trade, Trees, and Contingent Trade Agreements
Harstad, Bård - 2022
Can trade agreements motivate environmental conservation? I first present a model whereby the government in the South expands its production capacity (e.g., deforest) before trading with the North. After deriving negative relationships between tariff reductions and conservation, I show how all...
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Trade Openness and Income Inequality : New Empirical Evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
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The Interplay of Economic, Social and Political Fragmentation
Bosworth, Steven - 2019
This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
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Trade Protection Along Supply Chains
Bown, Chad P.; Conconi, Paola; Erbahar, Aksel; … - 2021
detailed information on US antidumping (AD) duties — the most widely used trade barrier — with US input-output data to study …
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Ambiguous Protection
Gründler, Klaus; Hillman, Arye - 2021
Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the ambiguity of intent. We set out a model that when applied...
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Private Information and Optimal Infant Industry Protection
Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond G.; Zhang, Yuzhe - 2022
We study infant industry protection using a dynamic model in which the industry’s cost is initially higher than that of foreign competitors. The industry can stochastically lower its cost via learning by doing. Whether the industry has transitioned to low cost is private information. We use a...
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Why 'buy American' is a bad idea but politicians still like it
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2010
When the world economy was recently hit by a severe recession, governments all over the world reacted by initiating … up with two rationales that help to understand why countries nevertheless consider protectionism to be a good response to …
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Use and Abuse of Antidumping by Global Cartels
Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Hoffstadt, Martin - 2021
Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy … that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … quantity effects of antidumping in cartel products. We find that the use of antidumping in cartel industries helps to maintain …
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Switching from Worldwide to Territorial Taxation : Empirical Evidence of FDI Effects
Buettner, Thiess - 2019
This paper explores empirically whether and how FDI is affected if multinationals’ home countries change taxation of foreign earnings by switching from worldwide to territorial taxation. Our analysis employs data for German inbound FDI based on the ultimate investing country concept. We use a...
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Carbon Prices are Redundant in the 2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Package
Aune, Finn Roar - 2019
In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions – the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its...
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