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Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War

Berger, Daniel - 2010

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...

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Exporting Ideology : The Right and Left of Foreign Influence

Antràs, Pol; Padró i Miquel, Gerard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We present an economic rationale for countries resorting to foreign influence to export their ideology to other nations. Our model incorporates two fundamental elements: redistribution of the tax burden between capital owners and workers, and international capital mobility. The model highlights...

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International Trade and the Environment : Three Remaining Empirical Challenges

Cherniwchan, Jevan M.; Taylor, Michael Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the relationship between international trade and the environment since Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger published their now seminal working paper examining the potential environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in...

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Trade, Growth and the Environment

Copeland, Brian R. - 2003

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …

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Globalization and Dirty Industries : Do Pollution Havens Matter?

Grether, Jean-Marie - 2003

This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on production and international trade flows in five heavily polluting industries for 52 countries over the period 1981-98. A new decomposition of revealed comparative advantage...

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Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2002

measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO …

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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore

Whalley, John - 1996

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...

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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando - 2012

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …

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Is the American Soft Power a Casualty of the Trade War?

Fan, Haichao; Hu, Yichuan; Tang, Lixin; Wei, Shang-Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The US trade war against China in 2018-2019 can either enhance or diminish the US soft power in China, depending on whether it is recognized as legitimate by Chinese citizens. We study how the viewership of US movies--an important element of the US soft power--is affected by the trade war,...

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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations

Fisman, Raymond - 2014

We study the impact of nationalism and interstate frictions on international economic relations by analyzing market reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer relative declines during each event window; a symmetric...

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