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Agribusiness trade between Brazil and China : pillars and opportunities
Nonnenberg, Marcelo José Braga; Lima, Uallace Moreira; … - 2021
In this paper, we discuss the agricultural trade between Brazil and China. We select a set of key commodities and debate whether there are obstacles or opportunities to increase trade between the two economies. Following an institutional and historical analysis, we provide a statistical...
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Revisiting the trade-creating effects of non-tariff barriers
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Teti, Feodora - 2023
Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade. But do existing regional trade agreements actually deliver what they promise? This paper argues that existing results in the literature are upward biased because of measurement...
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Assessment of German-Pakistani relations in trade, investment and strategic cooperation
Mahmood, Talat - 2014
German-Pakistani relations cannot be analyzed in isolation of the larger domestic and international trajectories, economic and political, on both sides of the partnership. After a recent democratic power transfer in 2013, Pakistan continues to face complex challenges. The instable security...
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US trade policy and the US dollar
Khalil, Makram; Strobel, Felix - 2021
We investigate the extent to which the effect of the 2018/2019 US import tariff hikes on US (post-tariff) import prices was offset by the concurrent appreciation of the US dollar and trace the source of the appreciation back to US trade policy itself. The dollar response to trade policy...
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
country. Since such wages are independent of the workers' domestic outside opportunities, wage moderation - induced by deeper … is only at that level that further economic integration will lead to both wage moderation and offshoring activities … ; import competition ; wage bargaining ; oligopoly ; redistribution …
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Trade in value added : do we need new measures of competitiveness?
Lommatzsch, Kirsten; Silgoner, Maria Antoinette; … - 2017
It has been argued that the increasing importance of global value chains necessitates a modification of conventional competitiveness measures. We compile a broad dataset including value added trade, gross exports and conventional and value added based real exchange rates. To sharply focus on...
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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization
Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021
This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...
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Trade shocks and social mobility : the intergenerational effect of import competition in Brazil
César, Andrés; Ciaschi, Matías; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages persists across generations. Using … survey data with retrospective information on parental employment, we study the causal effect of increased Chinese import …
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Pay transparency in organizations
Habibi, Amir - 2023
I study when a firm prefers to be transparent about pay using a simple multidimensional signaling model. Pay transparency within the firm means that a worker can learn about his own worker-firm match from another worker's pay. This can either encourage or discourage workers-which affects...
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The impact of US tariffs against China on US imports : evidence for trade diversion?
Meinen, Philipp; Schulte, Patrick; Cigna, Simone; … - 2019
In this paper we provide evidence on the existence of short-run trade diversion effects as a consequence of tariff shocks. We exploit sudden policy changes in the context of the trade dispute between the US and China. Based on a data set covering monthly product-level information on US imports...
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