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Using the menu-auction approach to endogenous determination of tariffs and allowing additionally for lobby formation itself to be endogenous, this paper analyzes the impact of unilateral trade liberalization by one country on its partner's trade policies. We find that such unilateral...
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A coalition of well-organized semiconductor producers along with compliant government agencies (USTR and the Commerce Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent...
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We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework … turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …
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country, single period numerical general equilibrium model which captures China and her major trading partners and examine the … outcomes of trade policy bargaining solutions (bargaining over tariffs and financial transfers) over time as China grows more … parameterizations. This yields a measure of both absolute and relative gain to China from bargaining. We calibrate our model to base …
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We use the dynamics of U.S. imports across goods in the period around the U.S.-China trade war with a model of exporter … China would face Non-Normal Trade Relations tariffs in the future. Our findings imply that the expected mean future U ….S. tariff on China rose more under President Biden than under President Trump. We also show that the trade response to the trade …
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We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate …
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. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …
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When subsidies and tariffs are applied to imports with fluctuating prices, it is shown that the output response of domestic producers depends on market structure and their attitude toward risk. The domestic industry response is contrasted under two types of market structure, a monopoly and a...
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Recently competition policy has become an important trade policy issue, since many policy makers now see competition policy as an important instrument to secure market access' to foreign markets. This paper analyzes this issue both from a theoretical point of view and from the review of the...
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It is widely believed that U.S. trade deficits have displaced workers from highly paid manufacturing jobs into less well-paid service employment, contributing to declining incomes for the nation as a whole. Although proponents of this view do not usually think of it this way, this analysis falls...
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