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Free Trade Agreements as Protectionist Devices : Rules of Origin
Krueger, Anne O. - 2011
In this paper it is argued that there is an important protectionist bias inherent in free trade agreements which is not present in custom unions. In any customs union or free trade agreement, one of the critical issues concerns "rules of origin." In a free trade agreement rules of origin have an...
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Complementarity and Increasing Returns in Intermediate Inputs : A Theoretical and Applied General-Equilibrium Analysis
Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; Markusen, James R.; … - 2021
Conventional analysis in the trade-industrial-organization literature suggests that, when a country has some market power over an imported good, some small level of protection must be welfare improving. This is essentially a terms-of-trade argument that is reinforced if the imported goods are...
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Task Routineness and Trade Policy Preferences
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2013
Understanding the formation of individual trade policy preferences is a fundamental input into the modeling of trade policy outcomes. Surprisingly, past studies have found mixed evidence that various labor market and industry attributes of workers affect their trade policy preferences, even...
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Trade Protectionism and Us Manufacturing Employment
Li, Chunding - 2019
This paper uses a numerical global general equilibrium model to simulate the possible effects of US initiated trade protection measures on US manufacturing employment. The simulation results show that US trade protection measures do not increase but will instead reduce manufacturing employment,...
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Latin America in the Rearview Mirror
Cole, Harold L.; Ohanian, Lee E.; Riascos, Alvaro; … - 2021
competitive barriers increase productivity to Western levels …
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Geography, Policy, or Productivity? Regional Trade in Five South American Countries, 1910-1950
Badia-Miro, Marc - 2015
productivity; high natural and policy barriers to trade. Focusing on the latter explanations, policy makers have long advocated a …
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The Effects of Capital Subsidization on Israeli Industry
Bregman, Arie; Fuss, Melvyn; Regev, Haim - 2021
An industrial policy of subsidizing physical capital investment has been utilized in many countries in order to encourage export growth and spread economic development to outlying areas. For Israel, we possess a unique time series-cross section micro data set that details investment and its...
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Autos and the National Industrial Recovery Act : Evidence on Industry Complementarities
Cooper, Russell; Haltiwanger, John - 2021
This paper investigates the motivations for, and implications of, the Automobile Industry code under the National Industrial Recovery Act. The amended code contained a provision calling for automobile producers to alter the timing of new model introductions and the annual automobile show as a...
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Government Interventions and Productivity Growth in Korean Manufacturingindustries
Lee, Jong-Wha - 2011
trade protection reduced growth rates of labor productivity and total factor productivity, while industrial policies, such … as tax incentives and subsidized credit, were not correlated with total factor productivity growth in the promoted … sectors. The evidence, thus, implies that less government intervention in trade is linked to higher productivity growth …
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Japanese Research Consortia : A Microeconometric Analysis of Industrial Policy
Branstetter, Lee; Sakakibara, Mariko - 2021
measure the impact of participation on the ex-post research productivity of the firm. We are able to find evidence that … frequent participation in these consortia has a positive impact on research expenditure and research productivity. These … firms' research productivity. Furthermore, we find evidence that part of this impact arises from the increased knowledge …
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