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Brexit Uncertainty and Trade Disintegration
Graziano, Alejandro - 2018
We estimate the uncertainty effects of preferential trade disagreements. Increases in the probability of Britain's exit from the European Union (Brexit) reduce bilateral export values and trade participation. These effects are increasing in trade policy risk across products and asymmetric for UK...
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International Trade Aspects of Competition Policy
Nagaoka, Sadao - 1998
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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Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. and U.S. Trade
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1991
Foreign-owned manufacturing firms' shares of U.S. trade grew from almost nothing in the 1960s to 7 or 8 per cent of trade in manufactured goods by the 1980s. It has changed little in the past decade, except for fluctuations related to changing U.S. exchange rates. Foreign-owned firms are less...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471147
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473528
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Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns
Eaton, Jonathan - 1995
region. We find that features of a country associated with more trade with either Japan or the United States also tend to be … associated with more DFI from Japan or the United States. U.S. economic relations with Japan and Western Europe provide an … important exception. Despite U.S. concern about its trade deficit with Japan, we find Japan to be much more open to the United …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474180
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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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Debt and Equity Yields : 1926-80
Hendershott, Patric H. - 1983
The study is divided into four broad parts, beginning with an exploratory analysis of the data on expost returns on corporate equities and bonds for the 1926-80 period. In Part 2, we estimate the relationships between one-month expost returns on corporate bonds and equities andvariations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477959
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Non-Monetary News in Central Bank Communication
Cieslak, Anna - 2018
We quantify the importance of non-monetary news in central bank communication. Using evidence from four major central banks and a comprehensive classification of events, we decompose news conveyed by central banks into news about monetary policy, economic growth, and separately, shocks to risk...
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