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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity : Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857766
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Preferential Trade Liberalization with Endogenous Cartel Discipline : Implications for Welfare and Optimal Trade Policies
Agnosteva, Delina - 2020
We consider an international cartel whose members interact repeatedly in their own as well as in third-country segmented markets. Cartel discipline-an inverse measure of the degree of competition between firms-is endogenously determined by the cartel's incentive compatibility constraint (ICC),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822505
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The Role of Non-Discrimination in a World of Discriminatory Preferential Trade Agreements
Saggi, Kamal - 2020
In a three-country model of endogenous trade agreements, we study the implications of the Most Favored Nation Clause (MFN) when countries are free to form discriminatory preferential trade agreements (PTAs). While PTA members discriminate against non-member countries, MFN requires non-members to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839848
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Firm Heterogeneity and the Labour Market Effects of Trade Liberalisation
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2021
depends on the productivity and thus the economic success of the firm they are working in, we can study the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317452
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On the Heterogeneous Trade and Welfare Effects of GATT/WTO Membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2020
We build on the latest developments in the structural gravity literature to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822504
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A Simple Method to Quantify the Ex-Ante Effects of "Deep" Trade Liberalization and "Hard" Trade Protection
Larch, Mario; Tan, Shawn W.; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021
We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the “deep” impact of trade liberalization and the “hard” effects of protection with the empirical structural gravity model. Specifically, we argue that the difference between the estimates of border indicator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216771
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Political Stasis or Protectionist Rut? Policy Mechanisms for Trade Reform in a Democracy
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2012
This paper analyzes the dynamics of trade policy reform under democracy. In an overlapping generations model, heterogeneous agents may acquire skills when young, thereby determining the skill composition of their cohort. Current and anticipated trade policies influence education decisions, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755373
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Labor Unions and the Electoral Consequences of Trade Liberalization
Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2021
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313447
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Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States
Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2022
How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US export growth following the permanent normalization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300868
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179786