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We review the growing literature on the effects of antidumping, a trade policy that has emerged as the most serious … impediment to international trade. Over the past 25 years countries have increasingly turned to antidumping in order to offer … protection to import-competing industries. Antidumping is a trade policy where the institutional process surrounding the …
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This paper is the first to study empirically the effects of European antidumping actions on import diversion from … importers 'named' in an antidumping investigation, and potentially subject to protectionist measures, to countries not named' in … can be regarded as an indication of the effectiveness of antidumping policy which is used to protect the home industry …
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Gravity-based cross-sectional evidence indicates that currency unions stimulate trade; cross-sectional evidence indicates that trade stimulates output. This paper estimates the effect that currency union has, via trade, on output per capita. We use economic and geographic data for over 200...
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trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years spanning 1970 through 1990 for 186 countries …
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This paper argues that the theoretical foundations for the gravity equation are general, while the empirical performance of the gravity equation is specific to the type of goods examined. Most existing theory for the gravity equation depends on the assumption of differentiated goods. We show...
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frictions in production and distribution of a many country world. The starting point is the international incidence of … reduce sectoral skill premia. Bigger sellers' incidence by country (sector) reduces equilibrium shares of world (national …
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This paper studies empirically the effects of financial crises on international trade. The major findings are that banking crises had a negative impact on imports but a positive impact on exports in the short term, whereas currency crises decreased imports in the short term and stimulated...
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This study quantifies the impact of traditional and new age' provisions of preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) on merchandise trade and investment. It does so by estimating gravity models of bilateral trade and investment. It finds that recent and some past PTAs are not as benign as some...
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This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...
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This paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization … and a large panel data set covering over fifty years and 175 countries. An extensive search reveals little evidence that …
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