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trade with foreigners" is detrimental for growth. We find that "Taxes on international trade" seems to drive this result …
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Quantitative studies estimate that potential two way trade between India and Pakistan can be about 10 times than its … rather unsatisfactory current level of $ 613 million. Moving towards realizing this trade potential is clearly in the … interest of both countries and the region. In this context this study identifies areas of trade and investment co …
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Governments in more developed economies partially compensate import-competing industries when world prices fall, i.e. they lean against the wind. In less developed economies we often observe liberalization in response to the same shock. We use a political-support maximization model with revenue...
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The emergence of global value chains not only leads to a magnification of trade in intermediate inputs but also to an … context of the China-U.S. trade negotiations. This paper analyzes the strategic interaction of tariff policies and the … principle, tariffs could be an effective deterrent for weak protections for intellectual property. Moreover, weakening …
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upstream ones are not affected. To quantify the aggregate effect of these tariffs, we build a model with international trade …Can anti-dumping tariffs increase employment? We compile data on all antidumping (AD) investigations in Brazil matching ….06%, but they decreased welfare by 2.4%. Using tariffs, the government can increase employment by as much as 2.8%. …
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This paper argues that the empirical trade-growth relationship should be modelled using a dynamic panel data approach … than previous results. They confirm the existence of a strong causal effect of trade on growth but fail to find evidence … for trade as an independent factor of divergence. Hence, one cannot blame trade as such for the disappointing performance …
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While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
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This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector. Economic factors can be summarized by the infant industry argument and we expect industries which are relatively efficient compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels...
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for adverse effects of regulatory heterogeneity on intra-EU trade in the pre-harmonization period, which questions the …
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of trade flows in environmental goods (EG) on total CO2 and SO2 emissions. Our system-GMM estimations reveal positive … recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in …-induced effects. We show that the direct, indirect and total effects of trade in EGs depend on the country’s net trade status, the EGs …
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