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Does WTO Membership Make a Difference at the Extensive Margin of World Trade?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2007
estimation approach, we find that WTO membership has promoted world trade to a larger extent than Rose's results seem to indicate …In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not … zero trade and leaves room for WTO membership to promote trade at the extensive margin of trade. Relying on a Tobit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777730
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Global Gains from Trade Liberalization
Fan, Haichao - 2012
What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country ….05% lower in the year 2008 if China had not gained accession to the WTO in 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108084
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Imported-Input Trade Liberalization and Firms' Export Performance in China : Theory and Evidence
Fan, Haichao - 2016
trade liberalization experience of China following its accession to the WTO in 2001. We build a multi-sector heterogenous … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994179
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Managerial versus Production Wages : Offshoring, Country Size and Endowments
Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2021
premium as well as on international inequality measured in income per head. We compare these effects in a world where trade is … restricted to differentiated final goods with a world with trade in both final goods and production tasks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316113
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The Economics of Investor Protection : ISDS versus National Treatment
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2019
Investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) are supposed to protect foreign investors against domestic policies causing “unjustified” harm. This paper scrutinizes the effects of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) and national treatment provisions in a two-period model where foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903484
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Offshoring and Volatility of Demand
Benz, Sebastian - 2016
In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume complete contracts. Firms are heterogeneous as in Melitz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986173
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Does WTO Membership Make a Difference at the Extensive Margin of World Trade?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2007
estimation approach, we find that WTO membership has promoted world trade to a larger extent than Rose’s results seem to indicate. …In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not … zero trade and leaves room for WTO membership to promote trade at the extensive margin of trade. Relying on a Tobit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181483
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Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Jobs, Investment and Welfare in Present Member Countries
Heijdra, Ben J.; Keuschnigg, Christian; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2002
Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through numerical simulations. Analytical results identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051580
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Global Gains from Trade Liberalization
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Qi, Han Steffan - CESifo - 2012
What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country ….05% lower in the year 2008 if China had not gained accession to the WTO in 2001. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540252
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A Model of Trade with Ricardian Comparative Advantage and Intra-sectoral Firm Heterogeneity
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Qi, Han Steffan - CESifo - 2011
In this paper, we merge the heterogenous firm trade model of Melitz (2003) with the Ricardian model of Dornbusch, Fisher and Samuelson (DFS 1977) to explain how the pattern of international specialization and trade is determined by the interaction of comparative advantage, economies of scale,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364732