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The Impact of Interwar Protection : Evidence from India

Arthi, Vellore - 2020

Research on the quantitative impact of interwar protection on trade flows remains scarce, and much of it has concluded that the impact was surprisingly small. In this paper we ask: Did Indian interwar protection hurt UK manufacturers, by raising tariffs on manufactured imports? Or did it favour...

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Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Reforms with Majority Voting

Krishna, Pravin - 2004

This paper shows how unilateral liberalization in one country can increase the voting support for reciprocal reduction in trade barriers in a partner country. When trade policies are determined simultaneously in the two countries, we show the possibility of multiple political equilibria -...

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Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy : An Interest-Group Approach

Krishna, Pravin - 2003

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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Trade Wars and Trade Talks

Grossman, Gene M. - 1993

Whether governments clash in trade disputes or negotiate over trade agreements, their actions in the international arena reflect political conditions back home. Previous studies of cooperative and noncooperative trade relations have focused on governments that are immune from political pressures...

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When Britain turned inward : Protection and the shift towards Empire in Interwar Britain

de Bromhead, Alan - 2017

International trade became much less multilateral during the 1930s. Previous studies, looking at aggregate trade flows, have argued that discriminatory trade policies had comparatively little to do with this. Using highly disaggregated information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find...

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Measuring Openness to Trade

Waugh, Michael E. - 2016

In this paper we derive a new measure of openness--trade potential index--that quantifies potential gains from trade as a simple function of data. Using a standard multicountry trade model, we measure openness by a country's potential welfare gain from moving to a world with frictionless trade....

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Geography, Policy, or Productivity? Regional Trade in five South American Countries, 1910-1950

Badia-Miró, Marc - 2014

Regional trade in South America since independence has long been much smaller than would be expected if geography were the only constraint on trade. Several potential explanations exist: low technological and demand complementarities; low productivity; high natural and policy barriers to trade....

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Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data

Ossa, Ralph - 2011

How large are optimal tariffs? What tariffs would prevail in a worldwide trade war? How costly would be a breakdown of international trade policy cooperation? And what is the scope for future multilateral trade negotiations? I address these and other questions using a unified framework which...

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The Dollar in an Era of International Retrenchment

Chahrour, Ryan; Valchev, Rosen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

emphasizes the joint determination of countries' portfolio choices and trading currency. We find that unilateral protectionism on …

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Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalization

O'Rourke, Kevin - 2003

The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions …-skilled is associated with more pro-globalization attitudes in rich countries; while in some of the very poorest countries in the … sample being high-skilled has a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More …

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