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Foreign Subsidization and Excess Capacity

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wilson, Wesley W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The U.S. steel industry has long held that foreign subsidization and excess capacity has led to its long-run demise, yet no one has formally examined this hypothesis. In this paper, we incorporate foreign subsidization considerations into a model based on Staiger and Wolak's (1992)...

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Implementing Market Access

Krishna, Kala; Roy, Suddhasatwa; Thursby, Marie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

The outcome of trade policies to increase access for foreign firms to the home country's market is shown to be sensitive to the implementation procedure used. The importance of the timing of moves between government and firms is highlighted by focusing on taxes and subsidies to implement minimum...

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Trade Liberalization in Disinflation

Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

There exists near-consensus among professional economists on the desirability of achieving macroeconomic stabilization prior to the removal of microeconomic distortions. Yet this advice was completely disregarded in some of the most important cases of reform during the last decade--Bolivia and...

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Pop Internationalism: Has A Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?

Ferreira, Fernando V.; Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...

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Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills

Lederman, Daniel; Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two … mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to …), the theories suggest a skill-bias in export destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills …

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International Trade and Domestic Regulation

Staiger, Robert W.; Sykes, Alan O. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

Kyle, Margaret K.; McGahan, Anita - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We examine the relationship between patent protection for pharmaceuticals and investment in development of new drugs. Patent protection has increased around the world as a consequence of the TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for members of the...

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U.S. Trade Policy Since 1934: An Uneven Path Toward Greater Trade Liberalization

Baldwin, Robert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper presents a comprehensive but relatively brief historical survey of U.S. trade-policy over the last 75 years. It is aimed at individuals who are not already familiar with the concepts and terminology used in discussions of trade policy and the domestic and international institutional...

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Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration?

Alfaro, Laura; Newman, Andrew F.; Conconi, Paola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial organization posit that...

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Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements

Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...

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