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Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse After 1950?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2002
This paper uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World … controlling for novel measures of the changing world economic environment. Rejecting alternative explanations based on changing … head in a world environment characterized by a moderately higher level of generalized tariff protection. We confirm the …
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Measuring Openness to Trade
Waugh, Michael E. - 2016
welfare gain from moving to a world with frictionless trade. In this model, a country's trade potential depends on only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456528
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Protection Reduction and Diversion : PTAs and the Incidence of Antidumping Disputes
Prusa, Thomas J. - 2010
We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings. We estimate AD provisions in PTAs have decreased the incidence of intra-PTA AD cases by 33-55% and have increased the number of AD actions against non-PTA members by 10-30%. The...
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Multilateralising Regionalism : Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade
Baldwin, Richard - 2006
the role the WTO might play in guiding them. Two facts form the departure point: 1) Regionalism is here to stay; 2) the … motley assortment of regional trade agreements is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade … and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466118
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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks
Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995
This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473546
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The GATT's Starting Point : Tariff Levels circa 1947
Bown, Chad P. - 2015
How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...
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Antidumping
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470322
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The "New" Economics of Trade Agreements : From Trade Liberalization to Regulatory Convergence?
Grossman, Gene M. - 2019
What incentives do governments have to negotiate "new trade agreements," i.e., agreements that constrain not only governments' choices of tariffs, but also their domestic regulatory policies? We focus on horizontal product standards, i.e., those that impose requirements along a horizontal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480078
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Risk, Government and Globalization : International Survey Evidence
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2007
This paper uses international survey data to document two stylized facts. First, risk aversion is associated with anti-trade attitudes. Second, this effect is smaller in countries with greater levels of government expenditure. The paper thus provides evidence for the microeconomic underpinnings...
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Open Regionalism in a World of Continental Trade Blocs
Wei, Shang-Jin - 1995
Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473603