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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments
Dong, Yan - 2009
increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical …
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Estimating Trade Flows : Trading Partners and Trading Volumes
Helpman, Elhanan - 2007
We develop a simple model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that is consistent with a number of stylized features of the data. In particular, the model predicts positive as well as zero trade flows across pairs of countries, and it allows the number of exporting firms to vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465729
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Trade Costs
Anderson, James E. - 2004
This paper surveys the measurement of trade costs --- what we know, and what we don't know but may usefully attempt to find out. Partial and incomplete data on direct measures of costs go together with inference on implicit costs from trade flows and prices. Total trade costs in rich countries...
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A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century
Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I explore whether the world trading system of the twentieth century can be adapted to address the challenges of the …
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Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders : Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?
Krishna, Kala - 2007
This paper considers the effects of trade policy--tariffs and quotas--when importing is done by competitive traders who are identical ex ante but differ ex post. We show that the standard equivalence results no longer hold and the conventional ranking of tariffs and quotas is turned on its head:...
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Home and Regional Biases and Border Effects in Armington Type Models
Whalley, John - 2006
using a calibrated model with 3 Canadian regions, the U.S., and the rest of the world using 2001 data. We also evaluate how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466225
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 1996
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the …
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The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and Its Impacts on Trade
Chen, Hejing - 2011
Results suggest that GPA membership has a positive impact on trade in both goods and services between parties as well as on outward foreign affiliate service sales. The number of GPA parties has a small marginal negative effect on trade in goods. Service exports also increase slightly with more...
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Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution : New Evidence from the Margins of Trade
Huberman, Michael - 2015
In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We …
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Firm Performance in a Global Market
De Loecker, Jan - 2013
In this article we introduce an empirical framework to analyze how firm performance is affected by increased globalization. Using this framework we discuss recent work on measuring the impact of various shocks firms face in the global marketplace, such as reductions in trade costs (through...
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