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Geographical extension of free trade zones as trade liberalization : a numerical simulation approach
Ng, Chi-Yung; Whalley, John - 2004
generating similar changes in trade volumes). Our work is motivated by China s approach to service trade liberalization in …
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Tariff bindings and the dynamic formation of Preferential Trade Agreements
Lake, James; Nken, Moïse; Yildiz, Halis Murat - 2019
We show that multilateral tariff binding liberalization substantially impacts the nature and extent of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) formation. First, it shapes the nature of forces constraining expansion of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The constraining force is a free riding incentive of...
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The surprisingly swift decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014
declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …
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Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...
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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020
We build on the latest developments in the structural gravity literature to quantify the partial and general 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...
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Market access through bound tariffs
Sala, Davide; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Yalçin, Erdal - 2009
WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...
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The trade impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021
China during 2020. We find that a country's own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China …-19 deaths in the main trading partners of a country (excluding China) induces more imports from China, partially … are evaluated at their 2020 mean is, on average, a reduction of nearly 10% in imports from China. There is also …
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The influence of Chinese trade policy on automobile assembly and parts
Swenson, Deborah - 2011
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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Did Trump's trade war impact the 2018 election?
Blanchard, Emily J.; Bown, Chad P.; Chor, Davin - 2020
We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade retaliation, but saw no commensurate electoral gains from US tariff protection. The electoral losses were driven by retaliatory tariffs on agricultural products, and were only...
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Unfolding trade effect in two margins of informality : the Peruvian case
Cisneros-Acevedo, Camila - 2021
This paper studies the effect of an increase in import competition on informality along two margins. I consider the extensive margin, where workers are hired by unregistered employers and the intensive margin, where even though jobs are carried out in registered firms, employees are off the...
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