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Mallon, Glenda; Whalley, John - 2021

terms by 2007. We evaluate how much benefit China can realistically receive from WTO membership given current problems with …

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How Did China's WTO Entry Affect U.S. Prices?

Amiti, Mary - 2017

We analyze the effects of China's rapid export expansion following WTO entry on U.S. prices, exploiting cross-industry variation in trade liberalization. Lower input tariffs boosted Chinese firms' productivity, lowered costs, and, in conjunction with reduced U.S. tariff uncertainty, expanded...

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Liberalization in China'S Key Service Sectors Following WTO Accession : Some Scenarios and Issues of Measurement

Whalley, John - 2021

This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002....

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Does the WTO Make Trade More Stable?

Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021

I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General …/WTO membership on the coefficient of variation in trade computed over 25-year samples, controlling for a number of factors. I also … use a comparable multilateral data set. There is little evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO has a significant …

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Can the Doha Round Be a Development Round? Setting a Place at the Table

Bagwell, Kyle - 2014

gains for developing countries that the WTO membership seeks. Second, in attempting to integrate its developing country … membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds …

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China's WTO Entry : Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement

Bown, Chad P. - 2013

This chapter assesses China's integration into the global trading system by examining areas of international political-economic quot;frictionquot; associated with its increased trade. We use a number of newly constructed data sets to examine tensions associated with its rapidly increasing trade...

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Multilateral Trade Bargaining : a First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

This paper empirically examines recently declassified data from the GATT/WTO on tariff bargaining. We document eight stylized facts about these interconnected high-stakes international negotiations. We use detailed product-level offer and counteroffer data to examine several questions about...

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WTO Dispute Settlements in East Asia

Ahn, Dukgeun - 2021

East Asian countries have become much more active in utilizing the WTO dispute settlement system to assert their legal rights. The dispute settlement experience so far for these countries has shown strong tendency of domestic governments to defend economic interest of major industries. Their...

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Gatt-Think

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. Our discussion proceeds in three steps. First, we examine the purpose of a trade agreement. In both the traditional economic and the political-economy approaches to the study of trade...

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The Connection between Imported Intermediate Inputs and Exports : Evidence from Chinese Firms

Feng, Ling - 2012

We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry as instruments. Our regression results show that...

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