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Protection and Competitiveness in Egyptian Agriculture and Industry
Hansen, Bent; Nashashibi, Karim A. - 2021
This paper contains the basic statistical material upon which Effective Rates of Protection (ERPs), Domestic Resource Costs (DRCs), and crop acreage responses were calculated by the authors for their volume on Egypt in the NBER project Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development. This...
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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
Carter, Colin A.; Steinbach, Sandro - 2022
This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …
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Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting
Krishna, Kala - 2014
-through of the world price to the producer …
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Gravity and Comparative Advantage : Estimation of Trade Elasticities for the Agricultural Sector
Heerman, Kari - 2018
In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...
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The Welfare State and Competitiveness
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
and nontradables to study redistribution across different types of agents in a world characterized by the presence of …
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Industrial Policy and Competition
Aghion, Philippe - 2012
industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a sector or measures that encourage …
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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Greenstone, Michael - 2014
The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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Import Competition and Quality Upgrading
Amiti, Mary - 2014
at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading … quality upgrading for products close to the world quality frontier, whereas lower tariffs discourage quality upgrading for …
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Foreign Competition and the UK
Lake, Arthur W. - 2021
host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …
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The Life-Cycle of a Competitive Industry
Jovanovic, Boyan; MacDonald, Glenn - 2021
Firm numbers first rise, and then fall as the typical industry evolves. This nonmonotonicity in the number of producers is explained in this paper using a competitive model in which innovation opportunities induce firms to enter, but in which a firm's failure to implement new technology causes...
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