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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471205
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Trade Policy in Financial Services
McDonald, Bradley J. - 2000
This paper reviews the economics of trade policy in financial services, highlighting differences between trade across borders and through commercial presence. Trade liberalization could complement other financial reforms by enhancing the efficiency, quality, and variety of financial services and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399959
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002182071
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Labor market regulation, international trade and footloose capital
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2017
I examine the effects of globalization in countries where the employed workers support the unemployed and the governments control wages by regulating the workers' relative bargaining power. I use a general oligopolistic equilibrium model of two integrated countries with two inputs: labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596113
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The Uruguay Round and Net Food Importers
Eiteljörge, Uwe - 1995
This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395317
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The Burden of Sub-Saharan African Own Commitments in the Uruguay Round : Myth or Reality?
Sorsa, Piritta - 1995
The paper reviews Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) (i) own market access commitments in the Uruguay Round, and (ii) the nature of the constraints on SSA policies set by the Uruguay Round. It concludes that SSA failed to use the Uruguay Round to lock domestic reforms to an international anchor. Apart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396474
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The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2003
This paper furnishes robust evidence that the GATT/WTO has had a powerful and positive impact on trade. The impact has …, however, been uneven. GATT/WTO membership for industrial countries has been associated with a large increase in imports … estimated at about 40 percent of world trade. The same has not been true for developing country members, although those that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403886
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Special Agricultural Safeguards : Virtual Benefits and Real Costs-Lessons for the Doha Round
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2005
paper argues that, in violation of the spirit of the WTO Agreement in Agriculture, the special agricultural safeguards have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400731
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Liberalization of Trade in Financial Services and Financial Sector Stability (Empirical Approach)
Kireyev, Alexei - 2002
The paper explores empirically the links between the WTO-driven liberalization of trade in financial services and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399570
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A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - 2006
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328062