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

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 …

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 …

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 …