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Tariffs as Insurance : Optimal Commercial Policy When Domestic Markets Are Incomplete
Eaton, Jonathan - 1981
preference by economists for factor or product taxes and subsidies over tariffs and export subsidies may not be justified in this …
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Policy Choice : Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements
Limão, Nuno - 2009
available and an efficiency ranking is feasible: tariffs vs. non-tariff barriers (NTBs). In our policy choice model a government … bargaining with domestic SIGs can gain by constraining tariffs through international agreements even if this leads to the use of … indicates NTBs are less efficient than the tariffs they imperfectly replace. Moreover, we find parametric and non …
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Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns
Eaton, Jonathan - 1995
endowments theory would predict, the United States tends to trade more with densely-populated countries, while Japan tends to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473842
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China’s Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950
Keller, Wolfgang - 2020
The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries forced open new ports to foreign trade through international treaties. Chinese institutions of trade were abolished and re-organized under Western management, Western legal...
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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 upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility
Chaudhuri, Shubham - 2007
We study a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows us to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, we can use duality techniques to study the equilibrium, and despite its simplicity a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465184
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Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment : Theory
Cameron, Stephen - 2007
We construct a dynamic, stochastic rational expectations model of labor reallocation within a trade model that is designed so that its key parameters can be estimated for trade policy analysis. A key feature is the presence of time-varying idiosyncratic moving costs faced by workers. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465185
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Trade Policy and Wage Inequality : A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility
Artuç, Erhan - 2012
A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. We investigate the role of occupational mobility on the effects of trade...
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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise
Markusen, James R. - 2000
Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...
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Tax Credits for Debt Reduction
Dooley, Michael P. - 1989
The incentives for domestic investment in debtor countries are influenced by the terms of their external obligations and by the system of taxation utilized to provide government revenue for debt payments. It is well known that existing debt contracts could be altered to improve the incentives...
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