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On the Lobbying Behavior Response to Political Asymmetries in International Economic Integration

Cheng, I-Hui - In: Journal of Economic Integration 18 (2003), pp. 506-529

to lead to a higher tariff protection at the individual country level. Under a CU, firms may dislike any form of …

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Pollution and Informal Sector: A Theoretical Analysis

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - In: Journal of Economic Integration 21 (2006), pp. 363-378

We present a three-sector general equilibrium model with an informal sector, which produces an intermediate input for the formal sector, to analyze the effects of different policies on the environmental standard of the economy. The formal sector is made to pay a pollution emission tax for any...

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Effects of Liberalization on Domestic Product Quality

Kabiraj, Tarun; Roy, Soma - In: Journal of Economic Integration 21 (2006), pp. 273-293

the local firm goes up, its quality choice responds more under liberalization than under protection. However, its market …

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Transmission of World Prices to the Vietnamese Economy

Abbott, Philip; Wu, Ce; Tarp, Finn - In: Journal of Economic Integration 29 (2014), pp. 624-656

International economic integration has been a central policy goal for the Vietnam government since the doi moi reform was initiated in 1986. We explore the Vietnamese increasing integration into the world market and bouts of high inflation. Five price transmission models using three levels of...

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Saving Multilateralism in a higgledy-piggledy Trading System

Jovanović, Miroslav N.; Damnjanović, Jelena - In: Journal of Economic Integration 30 (2015), pp. 29-65

Whether international economic integration arrangements result in a more liberal trade at the multilateral level cannot be proven with ease. Integration may start this process, but it may also reverse it. New mega-integration deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Regional Comprehensive...

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Regionalism and Incentives for Multilateralism

Andriamananjara, Soamiely - In: Journal of Economic Integration 15 (2000), pp. 1-18

The paper studies the effects of regional integration on the incentives of mem - bers and non-members to undertake multilateral trade liberalization. Using a three- country political economy model with imperfect competion, it shows how regionalism can undermine support for multilateralism....

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The Trade Impact of Enhanced Multimodal Connectivity in the Asia-Pacific Region

Shepherd, Ben; B. Serafica, Ramonette - In: Journal of Economic Integration 26 (2011), pp. 624-650

This paper develops new measures of multimodal transport connectivity, and uses a gravity model to show that improving performance could lead to major trade gains for the Asia-Pacific region. By improving multimodal connectivity by 5%, APEC would increase exports by around 4%, or between 2% and...

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Customs Unions and Free Trade Areas

A. Clausing, A. Clausing , Kimberly - In: Journal of Economic Integration 15 (2000), pp. 418-435

This paper compares free trade areas and customs unions in terms of their potential to liberalize trade. While neither arrangement is shown to be unambiguously preferable, this paper generates specific conditions that determine when customs unions are preferred to free trade areas. The ranking...

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Design of an Antidumping Rule with Incomplete Information about Material Injury

Kohler, Philippe; O. Moore, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Integration 13 (1998), pp. 62-88

protection. By using an incentive framework, we show that asym - metric information about the level of injury can be resolved by …

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Foreign-owned Capital and Endogenous Tariffs

Olarreaga, Marcelo - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 606-624

determination of trade protection through lobbying, where the government is also concerned by income redistribution among owners of … endogenous level of protection. If the elastic - ity of substitution between labour and capital is sufficiently small, we show … that protection cannot increase after the entry of foreign capital, regardless of the form of investment abroad …

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