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Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long-run political-economic costs and benefits. Empirical work examining the relationship between such commitments and the exercise of trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent,...

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Emerging Economies, Trade Policy, and Macroeconomic Shocks

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these WTO member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports … and 22 percent of world GDP. The paper examines determinants of carefully constructed, bilateral measures of new import …

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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What Do We Know About Preferential Trade Agreements and Temporary Trade Barriers?

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

apply the World Trade Organization's global safeguards policy instrument. The four examples include recent policies applied …

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Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

subject to the combined use of these TTBs before applying these measures to new data drawn from the World Bank's Temporary …

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The Gatt's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...

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Is the WTO Passe?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2018

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...

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