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Tariffs passing through retailers : do tariffs actually protect domestic manufacturers?
Cole, Matthew T.; Eckel, Carsten - 2014
Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy are based on theoretical models that assume foreign manufacturers sell directly to consumers. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that wholesalers and retailers play an...
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Paris after Trump : an inconvenient insight
Böhringer, Christoph; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2017
With his announcement to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement US President Donald Trump has snubbed the international climate policy community. Key remaining parties to the Agreement such as Europe and China might call for carbon tariffs on US imports as sanctioning instrument to coerce US...
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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation
Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001
In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...
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Neo-protectionism and the European lobbies
Belloc, Marianna - 2014
just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …
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Why "buy American" is a bad idea but politicians still like it
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2010
up with two rationales that help to understand why countries nevertheless consider protectionism to be a good response to … a recession: (i) the lobbying of domestic, non-exporting firms, and (ii) the relationship between vulnerability, the … degree of openness and loss aversion of consumers. -- protectionism ; trade liberalization ; short term shocks …
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The sources of protectionist drift in representative democracies
Laussel, Didier; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2001
We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...
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Policy and politics : trade adjustment assistance in the crossfire
Laincz, Christopher A.; Matschke, Xenia; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016
The United States introduced Federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) as part of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act to dampen the adverse impact of increased trade on workers. Applications to receive TAA require approval from the Department of Labor. Guided by the technical criteria used by the U.S....
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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 … does not prove) the existence of counter-cyclical, hidden protectionism due to non-tariff barriers to trade in the United …
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Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements
Ornelas, Emanuel; Tovar, Patricia - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they form Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower preferential margins when the bloc takes the form of a free trade area...
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Multi-part tariffs and differentiated commodity taxation
D'Annunzio, Anna; Mardan, Mohammed; Russo, Antonio - 2019
We study commodity taxation in markets where firms, such as Internet Service Providers, energy suppliers and payment card platforms, adopt multi-part tariffs. We show that ad valorem taxes can correct underprovision and hence increase welfare, provided the government applies differentiated tax...
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