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Do WTO Members have More Liberal Trade Policy?
Rose, Andrew K. - 2002
This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473546
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Protection Reduction and Diversion : PTAs and the Incidence of Antidumping Disputes
Prusa, Thomas J. - 2010
We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings. We estimate AD provisions in PTAs have decreased the incidence of intra-PTA AD cases by 33-55% and have increased the number of AD actions against non-PTA members by 10-30%. The...
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Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious?
Baldwin, Richard - 2010
This paper presents a new model of the domino effect which is used to generate an empirical index of how "contagious" FTAs are with respect to third nations. We test our contagion hypothesis together with alternative specifications of interdependence and other political, economical and...
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The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly
Subramanian, Arvind - 2003
Contrary to the recent literature that concludes that the GATT/WTO has been completely ineffective in promoting world … imports estimated at about 44 percent of world trade. The same has not been true for developing country members, although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468674
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464216
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Counterfeit-Product Trade
Grossman, Gene M. - 1986
We analyze a two-country model of trade in both legitimate and counterfeit products. Domestic firms own trademarks and establish reputations for delivering high-quality products in a steady-state equilibrium. Foreign suppliers export legitimate low-quality merchandise and counterfeits of...
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Foreign Affiliate Sales and Trade in Both Goods and Services
Li, Chunding - 2010
(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462384
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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010
This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...
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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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