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driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …
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Exporters differ considerably in terms of export-market participation over time and employment size. But this marked … experience at other exporters. We show that expected export status, predicted with current destination-country trade instruments … reduced market penetration at the firm losing the worker. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that expected export …
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of skills in the production network. A firm-specific export demand shock from a rich country increases the firm's skill …, endogenous quality choices, and network formation. An economy-wide export demand shock of 5 percent induces exporters and non …
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In contrast to recent literature, we show that market access requirements (MARs) can be implemented in a procompetitive manner even in the absence of threats in related markets. By focusing on subsidies that are paid only when the requirement is met, we show that a MAR can increase aggregate...
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Supply chain disruptions, which have become commonplace, are often associated with globalization and trade. Little is known about optimal policy in the face of insecure supply chains. Should governments promote resilience by subsidizing backup sources of input supply? Should they encourage firms...
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In this paper we ask whether a policy of targeted export promotion can raise domestic welfare when several …
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But the disappointments can also be attributed to the preferences because they discouraged additional value-addition in assembly and stimulated the use of expensive fabrics that were unlikely to be produced locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly...
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Existing theories of trade agreements suggest that GATT/WTO efforts to reign in export subsidies represent an … delocation model first introduced by Venables (1985), we demonstrate that it is possible to develop a formal treatment of export … subsidies in trade agreements in which a more benign interpretation of efforts to restrain export subsidies emerges. And we …
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Because China's economic structure is different from that in OECD countries, using conventional neo-classical competitive trade models to analyze the welfare and trade impacts of trade related policy change can be misleading. In particular, both the exchange rate regime and output and pricing...
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The Constitution of 1787 was designed to give Congress powers over trade policy that it lacked under the Articles of Confederation. The Washington administration was split over whether to use these powers to raise revenue or to retaliate against Britain's discriminatory trade policies. Obsessed...
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