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Carwars : Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets
Levinsohn, James A. - 2012
This paper tries to make sense of the recent trade dispute between the U.S. and Japan in autos and auto parts. The paper argues that there are structural differences between the way that the auto industries are organized in the U.S. and Japan, and that these differences have contributed to the...
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The Political-Economy of U.S. Automobile Protection
Nelson, Douglas - 2021
This paper examines the political process through which the U.S. auto industry pursued and ultimately received protection from Japanese competition. Following a brief review of research on the competitiveness of the industry (section II) and on the effects of protection on industry performance...
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Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade Policy : Do They Matter to the Political Economy of the Lumber Dispute?
Kalt, Joseph P. - 2021
For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood lumber. Through three successive rounds of administrative litigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. sawmill industry has sought to have countervailing duties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310225
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Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2010
Over the past decades, the steel industry has been protected by a wide variety of trade policies, both tariff- and quota-based. We exploit this extensive heterogeneity in trade protection to examine the well-established theoretical literature predicting nonequivalent effects of tariffs and...
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Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data
Ossa, Ralph - 2011
How large are optimal tariffs? What tariffs would prevail in a worldwide trade war? How costly would be a breakdown of international trade policy cooperation? And what is the scope for future multilateral trade negotiations? I address these and other questions using a unified framework which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121039
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124656
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Financial Protectionism : The First Tests
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2011
We provide the first empirical tests for financial protectionism, defined as a nationalistic change in banks' lending … of financial protectionism. After nationalisations, foreign banks reduced the fraction of loans going to the UK by about … nationalised banks seem to have engaged in financial protectionism, while British nationalised banks have not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124846
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Foreign Investment with Endogenous Protection
Grossman, Gene M. - 2011
Jagdish Bhagwati coined the phrase quid pro quo foreign investment to describe international investments made in anticipation of host country trade policy and perhaps with the intention of defusing a protectionist threat. We apply Bhagwati's notion to situations where (i) foreign investment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125846
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Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
The recent literature on quid pro quo foreign direct investment (FDI) suggests that FDI may be induced by the threat of protection, and further, that FDI may be used as an instrument to defuse a protectionist threat. This paper uses a panel data set of 4-digit SIC level observations of Japanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104882
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Protectionism Isn't Counter‐Cyclic (Anymore)
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2012
Conventional wisdom holds that protectionism is counter-cyclic; tariffs, quotas and the like grow during recessions …-war era, protectionism has not actually moved counter-cyclically. Tariffs and non-tariff barriers simply do not rise … years, using eighteen measures of protectionism and seven of business cycles. I also provide some hints as to why …
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