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Preferences, rent destruction and multilateral liberalisation : the building block effect of CUSFTA
Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - 2012
partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external …
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Trade liberalization along the firm size distribution : the case of the EU-South Korea FTA
Chowdhry, Sonali; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2021
In 2011, the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (EUKFTA) entered into force. With its focus on non-tariff barriers (NTBs), it is a leading example of a deep new generation agreement. Using detailed French customs data for the period 2000 to 2016, we investigate how exporters of different size...
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Putting Canada in the penalty box : trade and welfare effects of eliminating NAFTA
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Bruno, John P. - 2019
Three years ago, very few economists would have imagined that one of the newest and fastest growing research areas in international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major countries' economic integration agreements (EIAs)....
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The impact of NAFTA on prices and competition : evidence from Mexican manufacturing plants
Kikkawa, Ayumu Ken; Mei, Yuan; Santamarina, Pablo Robles - 2019 - This version: April 3, 2019
This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants' prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...
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Phase out tariffs, phase in trade?
Besedeš, Tibor; Kohl, Tristan; Lake, James - 2019
What causes U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada to continue growing faster, for up to a decade, relative to countries with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement? Baier and Bergstrand (2007) suggest that tariff phase-out and delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could...
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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico
Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022
We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased trafficking profits of Mexican cartels, resulting in violent competition among them. We test this hypothesis by comparing changes in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction...
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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we...
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Globalization for sale
Blanga-Gubbay, Michael; Conconi, Paola; Parenti, Mathieu - 2020
We study the role of firms in the political economy of trade agreements. Using detailed information from lobbying … reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, we find that virtually all firms that lobby on free trade agreements (FTAs …) support their ratification. Moreover, relative to non-lobbying firms, lobbying firms are larger, and more likely to be engaged …
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Regulating untaxable externalities : are vehicle air pollution standards effective and efficient?
Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - 2022
What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...
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Hidden protectionism? : evidence from non-tariff barriers to trade in the United States
Grundke, Robert; Moser, Christoph - 2014
Are product standards protectionism in disguise? This paper estimates the costs of non-compliance with US product standards, using a new database on US import refusals from 2002 to 2012. We find that import refusals significantly decrease exports to the United States. This trade reducing effect...
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