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WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes

Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2016

Using a panel of 97 mostly developing and transitional countries for the period 1990-2011, this paper explores fiscal implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well as semi-parametric methods, we find that...

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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020

equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small …

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Was Germany ever united? : evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933

Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2008

When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the geography of trade costs across Central Europe. There...

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Offshoring along the production chain

Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - 2009

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....

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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

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Modeling international trade flows between CEEC and OECD countries

Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor); … - 2008

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Firm heterogeneity and the labour market effects of trade liberalisation

Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Kreickemeier, Udo (contributor) - 2007

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Trade, conflicts, and political integration : the regional interplays

Vicard, Vincent (contributor) - 2006

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Food prices and the multiplier effect of export policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2012

This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...

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Optimal tariffs on exhaustible resources : the case of a quantity setting cartel

Fujiwara, Kenji; Long, Ngo Van - 2012

We formulate a dynamic game model of trade in an exhaustible resource with a quantity-setting cartel. We compute the feedback Nash equilibrium and two Stackelberg equilibria under two different leadership scenarios: leadership by the strategic importing country, and leadership by the exporting...

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