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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016 - This Version: May 2016
's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …
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Reopening Pandora's box in search of a WTO-compatible industrial policy? : the Brazil - taxation dispute
Ornelas, Emanuel; Puccio, Laura - 2019
The Brazil-Taxation dispute concerns the complaints taken to the World Trade Organisation by the European Union and Japan against seven different Brazilian industrial subsidy programmes. One concerned the automotive sector and represents a clear case of policies dictated by strong domestic...
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Heterogeneous household responses to energy price shocks
Peersman, Gert; Wauters, Joris - 2022
We use survey evidence on reported spending in hypothetical energy price shock scenarios to study novel features of the price elasticity of energy demand and the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) after paying the energy bill. We find that the price elasticity is significantly larger for price...
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Protectionism and economic growth : causal evidence from the first era of globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020
We investigate how protectionist policies influence economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We employ the...
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Trade and currency weapons
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Bussière, Matthieu; Wibaux, … - 2018 - May 31, 2018 - first draft
The debate on trade wars and currency wars has re-emerged since the Great recession of 2009. We study the two forms of non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and to the real exchange rate, based on product level data...
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Ambiguous protection
Gruendler, Klaus; Hillman, Arye L. - 2021
Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the ambiguity of intent. We set out a model that when applied...
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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 … degree of openness and loss aversion of consumers. -- protectionism ; trade liberalization ; short term shocks …
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Substitutability and protectionism : Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri; … - 2007
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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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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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