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tariffs higher up and further down in the value chain depress value added, employment, labor productivity and total factor …This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using … tariffs at different stages of the production chain for a broad set of countries and industries. Our results suggest that …
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.S. auto tariffs. The second analyzes a 'transactional deal' between the U.S. and China to close their bilateral deficit. The … third, in the absence of such a deal, considers a potential escalation in bilateral tariffs between the two countries. Some …
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-CARICOM countries against time and commodity-level variation in external tariffs. I find that in each country the reduction of the …
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of low- and middle-income countries. The study applies a linear optimization framework to data for bound tariffs, applied … tariffs, and imports at the HS-6 digit level for 58 developing countries, and simulates results for different sets of import …
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In this paper a general equilibrium intertemporal model with optimizing consumers and producers is developed to analyze how the imposition of a temporary import tariff affects the path of real exchange rates and the current account. The model is completely real, and considers a small open...
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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of tariffs. Existing theoretical models do not provide clear … the hypothesis that tariffs have no statistically significant impact on the trade balance, the real exchange rate, or the …
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optimally deployed, it is shown, then the usual prescription that a small economy should not deploy tariffs remains valid even …
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In this paper we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing capital goods tariffs from other tariffs. Using exposure … reduction in intermediate and consumption input or output tariffs do not significantly increase their investment rates. However …, firms' investment rate increase strongly in response to a reduction in capital goods input tariffs. Firms do not substitute …
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. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …We study the macroeconomic consequences of tariffs. We estimate impulse response functions from local projections using …, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …
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