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Tariff Reductions, Entry, and Welfare : Theory and Evidence for the Last Two Decades

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2015

We show in a multi-sector, heterogeneous-firm trade model that the effect of tariffs on entry, especially in the presence of production linkages, can reverse the traditional positive optimal tariff argument. We then use a new tariff dataset, and apply it to a 189-country, 15-sector version of...

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Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2014

Individuals that consume different baskets of goods are differentially affected by relative price changes caused by international trade. We develop a methodology to measure the unequal gains from trade across consumers within countries. The approach requires data on aggregate expenditures and...

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The Tip of the Iceberg : A Quantitative Framework for Estimating Trade Costs

Irarrazabal, Alfonso A. - 2013

Casual empiricism suggests that additive trade costs, such as quotas, per-unit tariffs, and, in part, transportation costs, are prevalent. In spite of this, we have no broad and systematic evidence of the magnitude of these costs. We develop a new empirical framework for estimating additive...

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Do WTO Members Have More Liberal Trade Policy?

Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2022

This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...

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Trade, Growth and the Environment

Copeland, Brian R.; Taylor, M. Scott - 2022

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade … hampered by the lack of a common language and also suffered from little recourse to economic theory and empirical evidence. The … international trade. We critically review both theory and empirical work to answer three basic questions. What do we know about the …

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Trade Theory with Numbers : Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization

Costinot, Arnaud - 2013

We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying theme of our survey is methodological. We rely on gravity models and demonstrate how they can be used for counterfactual analysis. We highlight how various economic...

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Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2015

This paper examines the microstructure of import markets and the division of the gains from trade among consumers, importers and exporters. When exporters and importers transact through anonymous markets, double marginalization and business stealing among competing importers lead to lower...

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers increase Southern purchasing power, which lifts long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation,...

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Trade, Diffusion and the Gains from Openness

Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2012

world. But the gains from openness, which includes not only trade but all the other ways through which countries interact … representing 1% of the world's GDP experiences a gain of 41% as it goes from autarky to frictionless trade with the rest of the … interact through trade as well as diffusion of ideas, and then quantifies the overall gains from openness and the role of trade …

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International Trade with Indirect Additivity

Bertoletti, Paolo - 2016

We develop a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition and trade based on indirectly additive preferences and heterogenous firms. It generates markups independent from destination population but increasing in destination per capita income, as documented empirically. Trade...

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