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Multilateralising Regionalism : Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade
Baldwin, Richard E. - 2007
motley assortment of regional trade agreements is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade … and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778295
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China's WTO Entry : Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P. - 2013
world trade through formal WTO dispute settlement proceedings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753854
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How Big (Small?) are Fiscal Multipliers?
Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2010
We contribute to the debate on the macroeconomic effects of fiscal stimuli by showing that the impact of government expenditure shocks depends crucially on key country characteristics, such as the level of development, exchange rate regime, openness to trade, and public indebtedness. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136746
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International Standards and International Trade : Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion
Clougherty, Joseph A. - 2014
Empirical scholarship on the standards-trade relationship has been held up due to methodological challenges: measurement, varied effects, and endogeneity. Considering the trade-effects of one particular standard (ISO 9000), we surmount methodological challenges by measuring standardization via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066003
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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments
Dong, Yan - 2014
This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical … increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070430
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Negotiated Trade Restrictions with Private Political Pressure
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010
In this paper we consider a home government with political pressure to restrict trade, at the expense of foreigners. The foreign country is compensated with an income transfer, which can be thought of as a portion of the tariff revenues or quota rents. In this setting the two countries should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760276
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Putting the Lid on Lobbying : Tariff Structure and Long-Term Growth When Protection is for Sale
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
It has long been recognized that a country's tariffs are the endogenous outcome of a rent-seeking game whose equilibrium reflects national institutions. Thus, the structure of tariffs across industries provides insights into how institutions, as reflected in tariff policies, affect long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761657
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Obstfeld and Rogoff's International Macro Puzzles : A Quantitative Assessment
Eaton, Jonathan - 2015
a counterfactual world without trade frictions in manufactures. Removing these trade frictions goes a long way toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010717
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Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … of openness on innovation incentives and productivity growth. Finally, our model predicts that a more globalized world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920880
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Trade in Capital Goods
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021
exporters of capital goods to the rest of the world. We develop a model of trade in capital goods to assess its role spreading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218802