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. We calibrate such a model to China's trade with the rest of the world and explore two country tariff games using 2005 …
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We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil … rates suggest that China will become the dominant trade partner for Brazil surprisingly soon …
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This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in …
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widely recognized global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Results show a marginal increase in output growth for …
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This paper analyzes the economic effects of content-based import tariffs China imposed on imported auto parts. While … China’s policy penalized any firm that assembled cars with less than 60 percent Chinese content, the policy was most likely … quantities on the extensive margin. While China’s content-based auto import trade policy was repealed in 2009 after China lost …
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Concerns about adverse impacts on domestic energy-intensive and trade-exposed (EITE) industries are at the fore of the political debate about unilateral climate policies. Tariffs on the carbon embodied in imported goods from countries without emission pricing appeal as a measure to reduce carbon...
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This paper presents a new model of oligopoly in general equilibrium and explores its implications for positive and normative aspects of international trade. Assuming “continuum-Pollak” preferences, the model allows for consistent aggregation over a continuum of sectors, in each of which a...
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The objective of this manuscript is to serve as a practical guide for evaluation of the general equilibrium (GE) effects of trade policy using the structural gravity model. We try to achieve this objective in four steps. First, we focus on the original Armington-CES gravity model, as a...
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We develop a simple estimation procedure for general equilibrium (GE) comparative static analysis of gravity models. Non-linear solvers of estimated models are replaced by (constrained) regressions. Applied economists can more readily generate results, with more intuition about the working of...
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This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
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