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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of effective protection in about 50 developed and developing countries from 1995 to 2008. The paper reviews also the role of preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124457
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Globalization and trade flows: What you see is not what you get!
Maurer, Andreas; Degain, Christophe - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2010
The trade collapse that followed the recent financial crisis has led to a renewed interest on the measurement issues affecting international merchandise trade statistics in the new globalized economy. The international fragmentation of industrial production blurs the concept of country of origin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114994
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The impact of transparency on foreign direct investment
Drabek, Zdenek; Payne, Warren - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2001
Non-transparency is a term given in this paper to a set of government policies that increase the risk and uncertainty faced by economic actors foreign investors. This increase in risk and uncertainty stems from the presence of bribery and corruption, unstable economic policies, weak and poorly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115000
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Clustering value-added trade: Structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115055
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Reassessing effective protection rates in a trade in tasks perspective: Evolution of trade policy in factory Asia
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
With international trade moving from trade in (final) goods to trade in tasks, effective protection rates (EPRs) are back to the stage, allowing us to measure the overall protection of a product or sector by including the production structure and the origin of the inputs -domestic or imported....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115073
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What global fragmentation means for the WTO: Article XXIV, behind-the-border concessions, and a new case for WTO limits on investment incentives
Blanchard, Emily J. - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115115
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The impact of mode 4 on trade in goods and services
Jansen, Marion; Piermartini, Roberta - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2004
This paper estimates the impact of liberalization of temporary movements of individual service suppliers on trade in goods and services. In particular, the paper looks at the impact of the so-called forth mode to provide a service on trade in services under the other three modes: cross-border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115135
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Antidumping regional regimes and the multilateral trading system: Do regional antidumping regimes make a difference?
Rey, Jean-Daniel - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
application of intra-regional, and sometimes extra-regional, antidumping actions. This study focuses on intra-regional antidumping … regimes and has been built around the analysis of antidumping provisions in 192 RTAs. This Working Paper first recalls the … RTAs, the Paper identifies two Categories of regional antidumping regimes, and assesses their relationships with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115162
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Global production with export platforms
Tintelnot, Felix - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115077
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Why are trade agreements more attractive in the presence of foreign direct investment?
Olarreaga, Marcelo - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 1998
This paper argues that interests of nationals and owners of home-based foreign capital in the formation of a Trade Agreements (TA) are not antagonistic, except under rather particular assumptions on initial tariffs among potential members. Further, if initial tariffs are endogenously determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115101