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Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …
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delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how …
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We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they … to a customs union (where members coordinate external tariffs). Moreover, in customs unions (but not necessarily in free …
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climate policy community. Key remaining parties to the Agreement such as Europe and China might call for carbon tariffs on US … advocates of carbon tariffs: Given the possibility of retaliatory tariffs across all imported goods, carbon tariffs do not …
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card platforms, adopt multi-part tariffs. We show that ad valorem taxes can correct underprovision and hence increase … result in different settings, including vertically interlinked markets, markets where firms adopt menus of tariffs to screen … consumers and where they compete with multi-part tariffs. Our results suggest that exempting these markets from taxation may be …
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President Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized … difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the … local labor market's reliance on steel as an input and as part of local production. We find the tariffs did not boost local …
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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 …
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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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According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...
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In this paper, we construct an elaborate general equilibrium model with a continuum of production fragments for an intermediate good, then embed it in a growth model to address the effects of global production fragmentation, vertical specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small...
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