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We investigate the extent to which antidumping actions eliminate trade altogether. Using quarterly export data for …, which proves to be highly detrimental in the long run as many trade relationship cease during the duration of the order …. Given the literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, our results imply antidumping protection imposes greater costs than …
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Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import protection, and are commonly used by countries to promote targeted sectors. However, such policies can have significant impacts on sectors other than those targeted by the IPs,...
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Direct empirical evidence on whether domestic consumers or foreign exporters bear the burden of a country's import duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive...
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reducing costs, both fixed and marginal, or of trade preferences (with distortionary Rules of Origin) offered by an importing … country are performed. Our counterfactuals make a case for "trade as aid" as such policies can create a ""win …
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We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years. Despite many … studies' has established certain patterns that seem common across countries and trade liberalization episodes, and may hence …
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alongside the standard terms of trade effect. I report here distortion effects which are many times larger" than terms of trade … terms of trade effect. In 2 other countries the distortion effect raises a trivial terms of trade effect up to around 1% of …
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It is well documented that retail prices in Japan are higher than in other countries for similar products. The two main competing explanations for this finding are: (1) a relatively high degree of discriminatory practices against imports and (2) relatively high distribution costs associated with...
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political and economic circumstances surrounding Chile's unilateral trade liberalization during five stages (covering the period …-level survey data to analyze the effects of trade liberalization on Chile's unemployment. We conclude that during the 1970s and …
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This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its … desired result. In 2000, the United States dropped trade restrictions on a broad list of products through the African Growth …
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This paper documents and evaluates the process of trade reforms in Latin America from the mid-1980s until 1993. It … success of trade liberalization is assessed. Important questions related to the sequencing of economic reform are discussed in … detail, with particular emphasis on the proper sequencing of stabilization and trade reform policies. The extent of trade …
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