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Economics and Politics of Rice Policy in Japan : A Perspective on the Uruguay Round

Hayami, Yujiro - 1995

This paper reviews the recent problems of the opening of Japan's rice market and evaluates the Japanese government … of Japan's rice market during the negotiations on agricultural trade at the GATT Uruguay Round. Eventually Japan's rice … of Japan's rice imports could be decreased if the Japanese government accepted the tariffication agreement. In retrospect …

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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry

Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994

Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …

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To Find Relative Earnings Gains After the China Shock, Look Outside Manufacturing and Upstream

Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K.; Tello Trillo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine US workers' employment and earnings before and after trade liberalization with China. Among workers initially employed in manufacturing, we find substantial and persistent declines in both outcomes, with indirect exposure via input-output linkages exacerbating the negative effects of...

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Reciprocity and the China Shock

Bown, Chad P.; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We formalize the GATT/WTO principle of reciprocity in workhorse quantitative trade models, characterizing reciprocal tariff cuts that hold terms of trade fixed and investigating their labor-market impacts. We provide closed-form expressions mapping reciprocal tariff cuts to labor market...

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Understanding of Trade

Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I study how people understand and reason about trade and which factors shape their views on trade policy. I design and run large-scale surveys and experiments in the U.S. to elicit respondents' knowledge and understanding of trade. I also ask about their perceived economic gains and...

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Tariff Rate Uncertainty and the Structure of Supply Chains

Heise, Sebastian; Pierce, Justin R.; Schaur, Georg; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We show that reducing the probability of a trade war promotes long-term importer-exporter relationships that ensure provision of high-quality inputs via incentive premia. Empirically, we introduce a method for distinguishing between these Japanese versus spot-market (i.e., American)...

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Trade Policy and Economic Growth : A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence

Rodriguez, Francisco - 1999

Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...

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Trade Policy is Real News : Theory and Evidence

Alessandria, George A.; Mix, Carter B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We evaluate the aggregate effects of changes in trade barriers when these changes can be implemented slowly over time and trade responds gradually to changes in trade barriers because firm-level trade costs make exporting a dynamic decision. Our model shows how expectations of changes in trade...

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The Role of Trade in Economic Development

Atkin, David; Donaldson, Dave - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This chapter (to appear in the forthcoming Handbook of International Economics, Vol. 5) develops a framework with which to interpret and survey answers to the question: how does increased openness affect aggregate welfare in a typical developing country? We decompose answers into four...

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The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995

Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The decade from 1985 to 1995 was an unprecedented period of declining barriers to global trade. The reform wave was especially pronounced in developing countries where overvalued currencies were eliminated, quantitative import restrictions dismantled, and import tariffs reduced. What accounts...

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