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Non-tariff barriers and trade liberalization
Anderson, Simon P.; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2000
is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas, and to antidumping constraints (when quotas are jointly eliminated …This paper shows that governments have no incentive to introduce non-tariff barriers when they are free to set tariffs … but they do when tariffs are determined cooperatively. We then show three results. First, with trade liberalization, there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781528
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Trade and industrial policy of transition economies
Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001
Trade reforms in transition economies are analyzed in a model of trade and vertical product differentiation. We first show that trade liberalization in transition economies reduces the local firm s output and raises the prices of all variants. Second, we find that neither free trade nor the...
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Underrepresentation, quotas and quality : a dynamic argument for reform
Arve, Malin; Valasek, Justin - 2023
The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career selection where juniors value both the identity and perceived quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282424
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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 …
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Trade and currency weapons
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Bussière, Matthieu; Wibaux, … - 2018 - May 31, 2018 - first draft
non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and … in import tariffs by 1 percentage point reduces imports by around 1.4 percent. Hence the two instruments are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864529
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Phase out tariffs, phase in trade?
Besedeš, Tibor; Kohl, Tristan; Lake, James - 2019
delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997344
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Product-level trade elasticities : worth weighting for
Fontagné, Lionel; Guimbard, Houssein; Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
bilateral applied tariffs for each product category for the universe of available country pairs over the 2001 to 2016 period. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012260974
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Containing tariff evasion
Anne, Clement; Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2023
To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...
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Trade retaliation in a monetary-trade model
Whalley, John; Yu, Jun; Zhang, Shunming - 2009
We explore how outcomes of trade policy retaliation (Nash tariff games) are affected when trade simultaneously takes places geographically across countries and through time via financial intermediation. In such models deficits and surpluses in goods trade are endogenously determined, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806727
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Global welfare implications of carbon border taxes
Gros, Daniel - 2009
of view and its imposition lowers the price of domestic allowances, but less than proportionally. -- carbon tax ; tariffs …
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