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desired result. In 2000, the United States dropped trade restrictions on a broad list of products through the African Growth …
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With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade …
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Contract enforcement is probabilistic, but the probability depends on rules and processes. A stimulus to trade may …
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Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the … World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally … extract and enforce trade concessions from larger developed economies even though as a group they would be able to do so. We …
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I generate new data on HIV incidence and prevalence in Africa based on inference from mortality rates. I use these data to relate economic activity (specifically, exports) to new HIV infections in Africa and argue there is a significant and large positive relationship between the two: a doubling...
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This paper assesses the impact thus far that the termination of trade restrictions under the Multi Fibre Arrangement … of clothing and textiles. There are, however, large changes in the country pattern of trade, and also within more …
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We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework … with heterogeneous firms. We show that increased TPU reduces investment in export entry and technology upgrading, which in … turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …
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investment or trade channel depending on the openness of the economies. While a higher degree of exchange rate stability could … stabilize the real exchange rate movement, it could also make investment volatile, though the volatility-enhancing effect of … exchange rate stability on investment can be offset by holding higher levels of IR. Our results indicate that policy makers in …
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openness with a low level of financial development can be volatility-increasing; (v) net inflow of portfolio investment and …
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The U.S. Constitution removed real and monetary trade barriers between the states. By contrast, these states when they …
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