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Counterfeit-Product Trade
Grossman, Gene M.; Shapiro, Carl - 2021
We analyze a two-country model of trade in both legitimate and counterfeit products. Domestic firms own trademarks and establish reputations for delivering high-quality products in a steady-state equilibrium. Foreign suppliers export legitimate low-quality merchandise and counterfeits of...
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Estimating Trade Flows : Trading Partners and Trading Volumes
Helpman, Elhanan - 2013
We develop a simple model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that is consistent with a number of stylized features of the data. In particular, the model predicts positive as well as zero trade flows across pairs of countries, and it allows the number of exporting firms to vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754002
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Might Global Uncertainty Promote International Trade?
Baley, Isaac - 2019
Common wisdom dictates that uncertainty impedes trade—we show that uncertainty can fuel more trade in a simple general equilibrium trade model with information frictions. In equilibrium, increases in uncertainty increase both the mean and the variance in returns to exporting implying that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891335
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Foreign Affiliate Sales and Trade in Both Goods and Services
Chunding, Li - 2010
(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139148
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Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus
Bordo, Michael D. - 2011
trade reinforced each other before 1930, but that these effects did not persist after the Second World War. Financial … after 1945. We attribute the rising importance of trade in explaining growth to major post-World War II changes in tariffs …
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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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Micro, Macro, and Strategic Forces in International Trade Invoicing
Goldberg, Linda S. - 2009
The use of different currencies in the invoicing of international trade transactions plays a major role in the international transmission of economic fluctuations. Existing studies argue that an exporter's invoicing choice reflects structural aspects of her industry, such as market share and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155028
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Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
Jacks, David S. - 2010
What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing ground for this question: freight rates fell on average by 50% while global trade increased 400% from 1870 to 1913. We estimate the first indices of bilateral freight rates for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759104
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Do WTO Members Have More Liberal Trade Policy?
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2022
This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antras, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
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