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after formally choosing free trade as their development strategies, in a more general fashion than the existing tariff …
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the worldwide liberalized trade policies in agriculture, which raise the price of the economy’s primary exportable … of the agricultural trade liberalization policies, e.g. the removal of the indirect farm subsidies, the paper argues that …
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productivity to entering foreign markets, as postulated by the recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms …
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Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines, such as WTO tariff bindings and bindings on market access in services, constrain this variability. We examine the theoretical effects of such constraints on the expected cost of protection and offer...
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This paper is an empirical investigation on the relationship between trade globalization and political liberalization … prediction that political liberalization could discourage trade and trade could foster democracy. …
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If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non …
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expenditures on tradables and non-tradables, trade openness and real interest differentials. On the basis of these fundamentals … misalignment appears to be small as well. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings with regard to trade …
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The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
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This paper summarizes new developments in world trade, technological changes worldwide and their implications for … international trade, economic growth and technological change, dramatic increases in world trade in goods, services and financial … assets in last decades are statistically documented in Chapter 2. Theoretical studies of economists on international trade …
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In this paper we analyse the dynamics of trade patterns in the six largest industrialised countries and in eight fast … growing Asian economies. For each of these countries we study the shape of the sectoral distribution of an index of trade … far as the degree of persistence is concerned: the former have in fact a highly persistent trade pattern, whereas the …
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