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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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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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Micro, Macro, and Strategic Forces in International Trade Invoicing
Goldberg, Linda S. - 2009
The use of different currencies in the invoicing of international trade transactions plays a major role in the international transmission of economic fluctuations. Existing studies argue that an exporter's invoicing choice reflects structural aspects of her industry, such as market share and the...
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Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
Jacks, David S. - 2008
What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing ground for this question: freight rates fell on average by 50% while global trade increased 400% from 1870 to 1913. We estimate the first indices of bilateral freight rates for...
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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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Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?
Rose, Andrew K. - 2002
This paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization …
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Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus
Bordo, Michael D. - 2011
trade reinforced each other before 1930, but that these effects did not persist after the Second World War. Financial … after 1945. We attribute the rising importance of trade in explaining growth to major post-World War II changes in tariffs …
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New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?
Arkolakis, Costas - 2009
Micro-level data have had a profound influence on research in international trade over the last ten years. In many regards, this research agenda has been very successful. New stylized facts have been uncovered and new trade models have been developed to explain these facts. In this paper we...
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Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare
Redding, Stephen J. - 2012
We develop a quantitative spatial model that incorporates a rich geography of trade and imperfect labor mobility between locations. We provide general results for the existence, uniqueness and comparative statics of the equilibrium. We show how the model can be used to undertake counterfactuals...
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