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This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market...
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. Intuitively, unilateral liberalization by one country has the effect of increasing the incentives for the export lobby in the …
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in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent of the Japanese semiconductor market for foreign firms within five … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
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Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
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turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO … theory-consistent measure of TPU and estimate that it can explain between 22-30% of Chinese exports to the US after WTO …We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework …
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There is clear evidence that during 1980-90 more exports are positively associated with higher growth rates across … their effective utilization of foreign investment and exports …
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Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In the two decades since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work on this question, new research has tried to overcome the various methodological problems that have plagued previous...
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This paper shows how unilateral liberalization in one country can increase the voting support for reciprocal reduction in trade barriers in a partner country. When trade policies are determined simultaneously in the two countries, we show the possibility of multiple political equilibria -...
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productivity growth. It is found that countries that are more open to the rest of the world have experienced faster growth in total … liberalization efforts is documented and the effect on productivity and exports is investigated …
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our theoretical results to China's 2001 WTO accession, we find that China's tariff reductions exceeded reciprocity norms …We formalize the GATT/WTO principle of reciprocity in workhorse quantitative trade models, characterizing reciprocal …, increasing real incomes but amplifying the manufacturing employment dislocation - the China Shock - in the United States and …
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