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Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Di Maio, Michele - 2017

To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...

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Applied Services Trade Policy : A Guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index

Borchert, Ingo - 2020

This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade … Organization Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly 10 years ago and draws on a recent … are collected according to a newly developed policy classification, consistent with the earlier World Bank database and …

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Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices

Kee, Hiau Looi - 2016

focuses on market access and summarizes the trade distortions imposed by the rest of the world on each country`s export bundle … manufacturing protection. Nontariff barriers contribute more than 70 percent on average to world protection, underlying their …

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Services in the Trans-Pacific Partnership : What Would Be Lost?

Gootiiz, Batshur - 2018

As the fate of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) hangs in balance, an evaluation of what it offers could inform current decisions and shape future negotiations. The TPPs services component has been hailed as one of the agreement's major accomplishments. To assess the agreement's impact on...

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Preferential Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards : Stumbling Block Evidence from Mercosur

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

There is not yet consensus in the trade agreements literature as to whether preferential liberalization leads to more or less multilateral liberalization. However, research thus far has focused mostly on tariff measures of import protection. This paper develops more comprehensive measures of...

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Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy

Blanchard, Emily J. - 2018

How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, this paper introduces supply chain linkages into a workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with...

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Dark Costs, Missing Data : Shedding Some Light on Services Trade

Anderson, James E. - 2018

A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries, and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to infer border barriers flexibly are often missing for services, this paper derives a novel methodology for projecting output data. The...

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How Different are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from Us Trade Policies Toward Steel

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

Use of temporary trade barriers has proliferated across countries, industries, and even policy instruments. This paper constructs a panel of bilateral, product-level United States steel imports that are matched to a unique data set on trade policy exclusions that are associated with the 2002...

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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym - 2017

To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...

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Emerging Economies and the Emergence of South-South Protectionism

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

establish the importance of this question for emerging economies, this paper uses newly available data from the World Bank …

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