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Antidumping as Strategic Trade Policy Under Asymmetric Information
Matschke, Xenia - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753233
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316371
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Recent Estimates of Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices in the Euro Area
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2015
This paper provides an update on the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) estimates for 12 Euro area (EA) countries. First, based on quarterly data over the 1990-2012 period, our study does not find a significant heterogeneity in the degree of pass-through across the monetary union members, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022505
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China's Anti-Dumping Problems and Mitigation Through Regional Trade Agreements
Sun, Yanlin; Whalley, John - 2021
This paper highlights the severity of China’s AD problems, and high concentration of AD actions taken by the top … initiators, noting that China can offer a higher level of economic integration in an RTA in exchange for improved regional AD … RTAs on mitigating China’s AD problems suggests that China could become more active in mitigating AD problems by RTA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315550
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Income Inequality and Export Prices Across Countries
Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - 2021
This paper provides first firm-level evidence of the links between income inequality and the patterns of trade and export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution leads to higher average prices. We test the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315750
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The Impact of Trade Agreements on World Export Prices
Flach, Lisandra - 2018
This paper uncovers new stylized facts on the relation between economic integration and world trade prices. Using … export price data combined with data on 32 WTO (World Trade Organization) accessions by developing countries and hundreds of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915617
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A Commitment Theory of Subsidy Agreements
Brou, Daniel - 2012
This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its disposal, taxation can be distortionary and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100012
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Contesting an International Trade Agreement
Cole, Matthew T. - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918999
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Trade Imbalances and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Marchetti, Juan A.; Ruta, Michele; Teh, Robert - 2021
Rising current account and merchandise trade imbalances marked the years before the global financial and economic crisis. These imbalances either contributed to or precipitated the crisis and to the extent that they create systemic risks, it is desirable that they be reduced. There are many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315818
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WTO Membership and the Shift to Consumption Taxes
Buettner, Thiess - 2016
implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Employing robust difference-in-difference specifications as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981352