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Assessing the Effects of the MFA/ATC from US and World Trade Data after Its Removal

Yao, Daqing - 2015

for textiles trade. The benefits from freer trade in textiles and clothing shed light on other sectors that are still …

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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise

Markusen, James R. - 2000

Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...

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Do Developing Countries Lose From the MFA?

Trela, Irene - 1988

This paper provides estimates of both national and global welfare costs of bilateral quotas on textiles and apparel … using an applied general equilibrium model which covers bilateral quotas on exports of textiles and apparel negotiated … apparel production. Rather than losing share to other developing countries under an MFA elimination, higher Income developing …

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Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters

Demidova, Svetlana - 2006

This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...

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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R. - 2007

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

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Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution

Clark, Gregory - 2008

For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...

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Why is Trade Not Free? : A Revealed Preference Approach

Adão, Rodrigo; Costinot, Arnaud; Donaldson, Dave; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A prominent explanation for why trade is not free is politicians' desire to protect some of their constituents at the expense of others. In this paper we develop a methodology that can be used to reveal the welfare weights that a nation's import tariffs implicitly place on different groups of...

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Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade Policy : Do They Matter To The Political Economy of the Lumber Dispute?

Kalt, Joseph P. - 1994

For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood lumber. Through three successive rounds of administrative litigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. sawmill industry has sought to have countervailing duties...

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High Tech Trade Policy

Krishna, Kala - 1987

This paper analyzes the role of network externalities and expectations about them in the formulation of trade policy. Their effects are studied in duopoly situations when products are compatible and when they are incompatible and when multimarket effects are possible. Network externalities and...

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The U.S. Shale Oil Boom, the Oil Export Ban, and the Economy : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Melek, Nida Çakir - 2017

This paper examines the effects of the U.S. shale oil boom in a two-country DSGE model where countries produce crude oil, refined oil products, and a non-oil good. The model incorporates different types of crude oil that are imperfect substitutes for each other as inputs into the refining...

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