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Liberalising Trade in Textiles and Clothing: A Survey of Quantitative Studies

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure … studies foresee increases in global welfare as a result of ATC reform. But the estimates of welfare gains show considerable … variation, with expected annual global benefits ranging from $6.5 billion to $324 billion. Some studies predict ATC reform to …

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Are International R&D Spillovers Trade-related? Analyzing Spillovers among Randomly Matched Trade Partners

Keller, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 1996

In this paper, I analyze recent findings by Coe and Helpman (1995) of trade-related international R&D spillovers. I show generally that randomly created bilateral trade shares also give rise to large estimated international R&D spillovers; often, in fact, to larger estimated spillover effects...

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Opinión Económica sobre la Posibilidad de la Aplicación de una Medida de Salvaguardia a las Importaciones de Papel para Imprimir y Escribir, de Sacos Bolsas de Papel y de Cuadernos...

Porras, Author Enrique R. González - EconWPA - 2003

La gestión del presidente Hugo Chávez a casi cuatro años de gestión y un profundo deterioro de indicadores de empleo, informalidad y nivel de actividad económica, así como ante una fuga de capitales muy marcada, pretende revertir las consecuencias de una inestabilidad y desmontaje...

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Some Ethical Issues in Trade Policy: Management Ethics versus the Law

McGee, Robert W. - EconWPA - 1998

There are a number of ethical issues in the area of international trade that affect managers. This article will address two ethical issues that have been almost totally neglected in the literature -- antidumping and sanctions. Antidumping laws are special interest legislation. Rather than...

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Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?

Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002

If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non-pecuniary externalities), will this promote more cooperation in both policies or will cooperation in one policy be strengthened at the expense of the other? We analyze this question in...

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On Selective Indirect Tax Reform in Developing Countries

Emran, M. Shahe; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - EconWPA - 2002

The current consensus on indirect tax reform in developing countries favors a reduction in trade taxes with an increase in VAT to raise revenue. The theoretical results on selective reform that underlie this consensus are, however, derived from partial models that ignore the existence of an...

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EQUILIBRIUM REAL EXCHANGE RATE IN BRAZIL ESTIMATION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Buchs, Thierry - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the determinants of the real effective exchange rate (REER) in Brazil, from 1994 to 2003. Building on a standard theoretical model and based on the Johansen cointegration estimation, the main finding is that much of the long-run behavior of the REER can be explained by...

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Sensitivity of Tariffs and Quotas: A Signaling Game

Amin, Mohd - EconWPA - 2004

In a model with cost-based informational asymmetry and trade policy determined endogenously, we show that tariffs and import-quotas have different sensitivities to the signal sent by the private agents to the home government. Specifically, the optimal quota is shown to be more sensitive than the...

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Welfare Effects of Tariff Reduction Formulas

Jorgensen, Jan Guldager; Schröder, Philipp J.H. - EconWPA - 2005

WTO negotiations rely on tariff reduction formulas. It has been argued that formula approaches are of increasing importance in trade talks, because of the large number of countries involved, the wider dispersion in initial tariffs (e.g. tariff peaks) and gaps between bound and applied tariff...

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Cost Effectiveness of R&D and the Robustness of Strategic Trade Policy

Kujal, Praveen; Ruiz, Juan - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyzes the incentives for governments to impose export subsidies when firms invest in a cost saving technology before market competition. Governments first impose an export subsidy or a tax. After observing export policy, firms invest in cost reducing R&D and subsequently compete in...

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