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Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … World Input Output Database (WIOD). We also explore the consequences of labor mobility across local labor markets in Germany …
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Using provisions to ease the movement of business visitors in trade agreements, we show that removing barriers to the movement of business people promotes trade. We document the increasing complexity of Free Trade Agreements and develop an algorithm that combines machine learning and text...
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regulation to an international agent eliminates that distortion, increasing wages and aggregate welfare. …
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Before the recent rebound due to the US-China trade war, tariffs on international trade were being progressively reduced over the last decades and advanced countries increasingly relied on non-tariff measures (NTMs) to protect their industries from foreign competition. In this paper, we exploit...
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The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on … underestimation of deep integration projects such as TTIP. The panel data estimation of knowledge production functions for 20 EU … trade related real income gains in the context of TTIP - also contributes to new knowledge and a fortiori to higher GDP …
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This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of...
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Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the...
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after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of …
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