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Baldwin and Richardson (1972) and Miyagiwa (1991) laid out the conditions under which a home-bias in public procurement is rendered ineffective as a protectionist device. Since then there has been little empirical work on this subject. In this paper, we bridge this gap by building a new dataset...
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of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the … awarded to foreign firms would have been more than 15 times higher in the case of Japan and nearly 68 times more in the case … of Switzerland. We also find that for the same services categories, the Japanese government is not purchasing as much …
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’ buying decisions. Using self-assembled and hitherto unexplored data on government procurement submitted by Japan and … Switzerland to the WTO, we study the determinants of foreign public procurement over the period 1990-2003. In doing so, we make a …
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, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account … for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of Chinese exports to Japan after trade liberalization. For the case of … Chinese exports to Japan, a time series measure shows the growth in new goods coincides with the timing of the trade …
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Commissioned by the European Commission, the Final Report for the EU-Canada Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) provides a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of trade liberalisation under CETA. The analysis...
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This paper studies the pattern of trade specialization (PTE) of Uruguay and the dynamics that characterized it throughout the last twenty years. From a descriptive analysis of the PTE is used the methodological framework of the product space developed by Haussman et al (2007) to site Uruguay in...
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BACI draws on United Nations COMTRADE data and covers more than 200 countries and 5,000 products, between 1994 and 2004. Imports and exports flows are reported annually by 130 countries to United Nations in values and quantities. When both exporting and importing countries report, we have two...
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TradeProd, the CEPII trade, production and bilateral protection database, provides an updated version of the worldwide data used in Mayer and Zignago (2005), and available on CEPII's website. The database contains three groups of information covering 28 industrial sectors in the ISIC...
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world trade in 2001 and that of Japan in 2004, the scenario presented in this paper indicates the surpass in 2007 of the …
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Using the methodology developed in Kehoe and Ruhl (2013), I measure the change in the extensive, or new goods, margin of trade between Austria and the ten new entrants to the European Union in 2004. On average, the new goods account for 42% of the bilateral trade flow after enlargement. A time...
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