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This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a … curtailed by a trade agreement that binds tariffs only. We refer to this as the policy substitution problem. When factors of … credibly commit vis-à-vis the domestic lobby unless the trade agreement also regulates production subsidies, thus addressing …
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This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and … diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (‘brand equity'), whereas trade through an … trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of …
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We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy …
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trade agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) have been signed to lower tariffs and reduce the risks of …
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We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy …
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In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for …) and the Tariff Function (Findlay and Wellisz, 1982) models are significant at the one percent level. Novel is our … application of a single, unified theoretical framework to take strict interpretations of the three theoretical models to the data …
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This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and … diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm’s unique product characteristics (‘brand equity’), whereas trade through an … trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627568
This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a … curtailed by a trade agreement that binds tariffs only. We refer to this as the policy substitution problem. When factors of … credibly commit vis-à-vis the domestic lobby unless the trade agreement also regulates production subsidies, thus addressing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578150
and a terms of trade externality. It is larger the higher the dispersion of firm-level productivities, and the bigger the … costs or smaller fixed market entry costs induce higher equilibrium tariffs and larger welfare losses relative to the case …
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are based on theoretical models that assume foreign manufacturers sell directly to consumers. However, recent empirical … evidence suggests that wholesalers and retailers play an active role in international trade. We present a model of retailers …
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