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Can Subsidies for MARs be Procompetitive?

Krishna, Kala - 2000

In contrast to recent literature, we show that market access requirements (MARs) can be implemented in a procompetitive manner even in the absence of threats in related markets. By focusing on subsidies that are paid only when the requirement is met, we show that a MAR can increase aggregate...

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Supply Chain Resilience : Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring?

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Lhuillier, Hugo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Supply chain disruptions, which have become commonplace, are often associated with globalization and trade. Little is known about optimal policy in the face of insecure supply chains. Should governments promote resilience by subsidizing backup sources of input supply? Should they encourage firms...

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Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2009

The Constitution of 1787 was designed to give Congress powers over trade policy that it lacked under the Articles of Confederation. The Washington administration was split over whether to use these powers to raise revenue or to retaliate against Britain's discriminatory trade policies. Obsessed...

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Trade Policy and Import Competition under Fluctuating Prices

Strebel, Paul - 1981

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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Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy : An Interest-Group Approach

Krishna, Pravin - 2003

. Intuitively, unilateral liberalization by one country has the effect of increasing the incentives for the export lobby in the …

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International Trade Aspects of Competition Policy

Nagaoka, Sadao - 1998

cartels have a strongly negative international spillover, export cartels or international cartels do not constrain market … access,' and export restraints were often used to ameliorate trade frictions. Moreover, domestic cartels often have a … positive international spillover on the export from foreign countries. Thus, the recent focus on competition policy from market …

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Domestic Distortions and the Deindustrialization Hypothesis

Krugman, Paul - 1996

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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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry

Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994

'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …

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Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era : A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages

Bonfatti, Roberto; Coşar, Kerem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The last two centuries witnessed the rise and fall of empires. We construct a model which rationalises this in terms of the changing trade gains from empires. In the model, empires are arrangements that reduce trade cost between an industrial metropole and the agricultural periphery. During...

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African Export Successes : Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations

Easterly, William - 2010

driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …

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