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Hanson, Gordon H. - 2015

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … has noted a tendency for countries to concentrate exports in a few sectors. We show that this concentration arises from a … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across …

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Reciprocity, Non-discrimination and Preferential Agreements in the Multilateral Trading System

Bagwell, Kyle - 1997

GATT and its successor, the WTO. We show that GATT's principle of reciprocity serves to neutralize the world-price effects … provided that the externa- lities associated with trade intervention travel through world prices. We then establish that …

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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks

Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995

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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Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy : An Interest-Group Approach

Krishna, Pravin - 2003

. Intuitively, unilateral liberalization by one country has the effect of increasing the incentives for the export lobby in the …

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Trade Policy and Import Competition under Fluctuating Prices

Strebel, Paul - 1981

When subsidies and tariffs are applied to imports with fluctuating prices, it is shown that the output response of domestic producers depends on market structure and their attitude toward risk. The domestic industry response is contrasted under two types of market structure, a monopoly and a...

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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas

Dong, Yan - 2008

, forms and possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few … trade and financial arrangements in the WTO and IMF, and eventually movement to linked global trade and environmental policy …

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Trade Policy and Economic Growth : A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence

Rodriguez, Francisco - 1999

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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Regionalism and Multilateral Tariff Cooperation

Bagwell, Kyle - 1997

We consider a 3 country world in which each country's import market is served by competing exporters from its 2 trading …

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The Effects of Trade Policy Reform : What Do We Really Know?

Harrison, Ann - 1995

The magnitude of existing research on the effects of trade reform is impressive. Yet economists have not reached a clear consensus on a number of important questions such as the labor market impact of trade reform, the linkages between trade and foreign direct investment, and the relationship...

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International Rules and Institutions for Trade Policy

Staiger, Robert W. - 1994

What are the potential benefits from establishing international rules for the conduct of trade policy and how should these rules be designed? These questions are of central importance to the evolution of national trade policies in the post-war era, a period in which an elaborate system of...

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