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Can oil discovery shocks affect the demand for protectionism? An intertemporal model of Dutch disease indicates that if … the tradable sector is politically dominant then an oil discovery can induce protectionism. If the economy is also credit …
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Antidumping actions in the United States and EU are knownto be linked to macroeconomic conditions. In part, this is …
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We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s antidumping regime, considering both the characteristics of target … countries subject to antidumping duties and industry-specific factors for sectors receiving protection. Our results are broadly … political benefits of providing protection. They are also in line with the existing empirical literature on antidumping, which …
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Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines likeOECD industrial tariff bindings negotiated under GATT since 1947 and new Uruguay Roundbindings on agricultural and services trade and on developing country industrial tariffs, constrain...
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We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...
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This paper addresses the interplay between unilateralism and multilateralism. I first describe theirrespective stylized facts. I next present a simple, multi-country model with high initial tariffbarriers and with the features that have always been of paramount concern to policymakers,...
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barriers of the US using its detailed input-output tables. As predicted by the theory, we find that measures on imported inputs …
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Anti-dumping actions are now the trade policy of choice of developing and transition economies. To understand why these … economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws, we build a simple theoretical model of vertical intra-industry trade and …
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