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Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War

Berger, Daniel - 2010

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...

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Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect

Levinson, Arik; Taylor, Michael Scott - 2022

on U.S. regulations and net trade flows among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, for 130 manufacturing industries from 1977 to …

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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement

Orden, David - 2015

Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were …

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Spaghetti Regionalism or Strategic Foreign Trade : Some Evidence for Mexico

Ibarra Yunez, Alejandro - 2021

After signing ten free trade agreements between 1993 and 2001, Mexico as a world leader in foreign trade policy … agreements (RTAs) arises from a consistency test, but also from the ability of a country to administer them. Mexico's multiple … model of equilibrium, along with a political economy approach of why Mexico seeks multiple RTAs as its foreign trade policy …

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Who Gains from Trade Reform? Some Remaining Puzzles

Harrison, Ann E.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

rising wage inequality, focusing on the 1985 Mexican trade reform. Wage inequality in Mexico rose after the reform, which is … puzzling in a Heckscher-Ohlin context if Mexico has a comparative advantage in producing low skill-intensive goods …

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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence

Erdem, Erkan; Tybout, James R. - 2021

Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...

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Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare

Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William F. - 2005

This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...

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Understanding Financial Crises : A Developing Country Perspective

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2000

financial crisis, as in Mexico in 1994, to a sharp decline in economic activity after a crisis occurs. It does so by outlining …

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Costly Pollution Abatement, Competitiveness, and Plant Location Decisions

Markusen, James R. - 2021

The US-Mexico free-trade debate included some theoretical assertions that were then used as arguments against trade and …

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Social Policy Dimensions of Economic Integration : Environmental and Labour Standards

Anderson, Kym - 2021

Social policies, particularly environmental and labour issues, are not new to trade policy fora including the GATT. However, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade Organization. Many developing countries perceive the...

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