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Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021

Whether governments clash in trade disputes or negotiate over trade agreements, their actions in the international arena reflect political conditions back home. Previous studies of cooperative and noncooperative trade relations have focused on governments that are immune from political pressures...

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Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns

Eaton, Jonathan - 2010

region. We find that features of a country associated with more trade with either Japan or the United States also tend to be … associated with more DFI from Japan or the United States. U.S. economic relations with Japan and Western Europe provide an … important exception. Despite U.S. concern about its trade deficit with Japan, we find Japan to be much more open to the United …

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Policy uncertainty, trade, and welfare : theory and evidence for China and the United States

Handley, Kyle; Limão, Nuno - In: The American economic review 107 (2017) 9, pp. 2731-2783

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Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data

Ossa, Ralph - 2011

How large are optimal tariffs? What tariffs would prevail in a worldwide trade war? How costly would be a breakdown of international trade policy cooperation? And what is the scope for future multilateral trade negotiations? I address these and other questions using a unified framework which...

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China'S Post Accession WTO Stance

Mallon, Glenda; Whalley, John - 2021

We discuss China's stance in the WTO post-accession, noting the many issues with implementation of China's accession terms by 2007. We evaluate how much benefit China can realistically receive from WTO membership given current problems with dumping actions against China and trade restrictions...

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Trade Wars : What Do They Mean? Why are They Happening Now? What are the Costs?

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2019

How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? In this paper we offer an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that typically offered by economic commentators. More...

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Gains and Losses from Potential Bilateral Us-China Trade Retaliation

Dong, Yan - 2011

regions, the US, China, EU, Japan and Rest of the World, and calibrated to a global 2009 micro consistent data set. The other … debated. In a US-China trade conflict, Europe and Japan would seem gainers from preferential access to US and Chinese markets … Japan from trade diversion if the substitutions elasticities of imports are high. Costs will are borne by the US and China …

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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …

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Adjustment in the World Economy

Krugman, Paul R. - 2010

There is a widespread view that world payments imbalances can be remedied through increased demand in surplus countries and reduced demand in deficit countries, without any need for real exchange rate changes. In fact shifts in demand and real exchange rate adjustment are necessary couplets, not...

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U.S. Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments, 1800-1913

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2022

This paper reviews the main developments in U.S. trade and the balance of payments from the first years of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th. American export trade was dominated by agricultural and other resource products long after the majority of the labor force had shifted out...

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