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framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its …
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activities — negotiations, rule-making and dispute settlement — to deal with trade imbalances and with the main factors leading …
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This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where … penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade …
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When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have to fall according to the accession agreement. This paper evaluates this 2007-2014 trade liberalization by building an applied general equilibrium model and calibrating it to the...
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We examine the gains from Chinese accession to the WTO. Using Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodríguez-Clare (2012) we provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then evaluate how the increased openness caused by China's...
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What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
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In this paper we discuss the global negotiations now underway and aimed at achieving new climate change mitigation and … ongoing global negotiations on climate change and further rounds will almost certainly follow. We highlight both the vast … the negotiations is between OECD countries on the one hand, and lower wage, large population, rapidly growing countries …
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in both years). Undercharging for global warming accounts for 22 percent of the subsidy in 2013, air pollution 46 percent …
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We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a ‘parallel contest', that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each...
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This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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