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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 … illustrates that, statically, globalization (defined as reduced trade barriers) has ambiguous effects on welfare, while …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920880
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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions
Nashashibi, Karim A. - 2021
In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245548
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Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2016
How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, we introduce supply chain linkages into a workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001214
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Government, Openness and Finance : Past and Present
Demetriadis, Panicos - 2010
We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that the government expenditures and international trade did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137020
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International Trade and Domestic Regulation
Staiger, Robert W. - 2009
Existing formal models of the relationship between trade policy and regulatory policy suggest the potential for a regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations. This paper bridges the gap between the existing formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153585
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Trade and Empire
Mitchener, Kris James - 2010
Although many modern studies find large and significant effects of prior colonial status on bilateral trade, there is very little empirical research that has focused on the contemporaneous impact of empire on trade. We employ a new database of over 21,000 bilateral trade observations during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759567
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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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Would Protectionism Defuse Global Imbalances and Spur Economic Activity? A Scenario Analysis
Faruqee, Hamid - 2010
a dynamic general equilibrium model of the world economy encompassing four regional blocs. Simulation exercises are … retaliation. We also discuss a scenario in which a 'globalization backlash' lowers the degree of competition in import …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760524
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The New Regionalism : Trade Liberalization or Insurance?
Perroni, Carlo - 2010
Several of the recently negotiated regional trade agreements (Canada-U.S., NAFTA, E.C.-Hungary/Poland/Czeck and Slovak Republics) contain significantly fewer concessions by the large countries to smaller countries than vice versa. Yet, it is small countries that have sought them and see...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763469
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Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy
Gawande, Kishore; Krishna, Pravin; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2021
Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The theoretical structure underlying the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217953