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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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Measurement of aggregate trade restrictions and their economic effects
Estefania-Flores, Julia; Furceri, Davide; Ahmed Hannan, … - 2022
We develop a new Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR) using data from the IMF's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is an empirical measure of how restrictive official government policy is towards the international flow of goods and services. MATR is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170594
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Trade, jobs, and inequality
Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021
This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605685
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Protection and the Own-Funds Window in Tanzania : An Analytical Framework and Estimates of the Effects of Trade Liberalization
DeRosa, Dean A. - 1991
This paper presents a simple partial equilibrium framework for considering the economic implications of administered protection in Tanzania, against the background of the country’s parallel exchange market and the establishment of the own-funds and open general license (OGL) facilities for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398474
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Environmental Protectionism, North-South Trade, and the Uruguay Round
Sorsa, Piritta - 1995
countries. Potential for green protectionism and relevant GATT rules are discussed in three areas: i) environmental product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396257
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Regional Trade Integration and WTO Accession : Which is the Right Sequencing? An Application to the Cis
Tumbarello, Patrizia - 2005
This paper analyzes the appropriate sequencing between accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the … implementation of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) customs union and whether the latter facilitates or delays WTO accession for … WTO accession, this may cause delays that benefit some countries at the expense of others. The paper simulates the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400926
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Liberalization of Trade in Financial Services and Financial Sector Stability (Analytical Approach)
Kireyev, Alexei - 2002
coherent policy advice and the application of existing multilateral mechanisms-in particular, the WTO negotiations and the IMF/World … under the WTO and the stability of their financial systems. The paper concludes that liberalization has generally been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399645
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Fiscal Implications of Multilateral Tariff Cuts
Sadikov, Azim M. - 2006
The paper contributes to the discussion about the revenue implications of trade reform by assessing the approximate fiscal revenue impact of different liberalization formulae under consideration in multilateral trade negotiations for a group of low- and middle-income countries. The study applies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402033
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Value of WTO trade agreements in a new Keynesian model
Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha - 2015
We revisit the question of the quantitative benefits of WTO trade agreements in a setup that is non-standard from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281913