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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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We investigate the extent to which the effect of the 2018/2019 US import tariff hikes on US (post-tariff) import prices … that offsetting effects on the newly imposed tariffs were substantial. …
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Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …
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to the elimination of tariffs and cuts in non-tariff measures by 25%, is in the range of 1% to 4% of initial consumption …
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In this paper, we discuss the agricultural trade between Brazil and China. We select a set of key commodities and … and historical analysis, we provide a statistical description of the recent history of Brazilian exports to China. We … bilateral trade of agricultural products between Brazil and China. Still, a set of products can be classified as missed trade …
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Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the collapse of the gold standard? Using recent advances in the estimation of gravity equations, I examine the partial and general equilibrium effects of bilateral distance,...
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