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Revenue Motives and Trade Liberalization in an Endogenous Tariff Model
Gang, Ira N. - 1994
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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Intellectual property, tariffs, and international trade dynamics
Mandelman, Federico S.; Waddle, Andrea - 2019
principle, tariffs could be an effective deterrent for weak protections for intellectual property. Moreover, weakening … enforcement may be a strong deterrent for raising tariffs. These results combined indicate that there is scope for international …
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The employment consequences of anti-dumping tariffs: Lessons from Brazil
De Souza, Gustavo; Li, Haishi - 2022
Can anti-dumping tariffs increase employment? We compile data on all antidumping (AD) investigations in Brazil matching … upstream ones are not affected. To quantify the aggregate effect of these tariffs, we build a model with international trade ….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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Corporate taxes in the world economy: reforming the taxation of cross-border income
Grubert, Harry; Altshuler, Rosanne - 2006
Proposals for the reform of the taxation of cross-border income are evaluated within the general context of the corporate tax in an open economy. We focus on the various behavioral decisions that can be affected such as the location of income and its repatriation. The two income tax proposals...
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Is it time to eliminate federal corporate income taxes?
Lane, Edward; Wray, Larry Randall - 2020
Daycares closed on March 16, 2020 in Turkey to prevent the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, the two most common nonparental childcare arrangements in Turkey-care of children by grandparents and nannies-became undesirable due to health concerns and in some cases also unfeasible due to the...
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Desperately seeking revenue
Altshuler, Rosanne; Lim, Katherine; Williams, Roberton - 2011
In August 2009 the Congressional Budget Offi ce warned that the budget was on an unsustainable path. Preventing federal debt from growing faster than the economy over the long-run requires large increases in revenues and/or decreases in spending. We explore, using the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy...
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Self-enforcing trade agreements: Evidence from time-varying trade policy
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2012
The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports …
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Cyclical dumping and US antidumping protection: 1980 - 2001
Crowley, Meredith - 2009
This paper estimates the impact of economic conditions in foreign industries on the filing of antidumping petitions by US industries and the US government's decision in preliminary and final antidumping investigations. Exploiting cross-country variation in economic shocks in manufacturing, I...
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Market structure and market access
Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2007
in services affects the volume of goods trade. Additionally, because of interaction between tariffs and competition, the … market structure of the domestic service sector becomes increasingly important as tariffs are reduced. Empirically service …
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Trade, multinational sales, and FDI in a three-factors model
Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2000
The overwhelming importance of multinational activities as well as the coexistence of exporters and multinationals within the developed countries demand for theoretical models which provide a convincing explanation of simultaneous two-way trade and horizontal multinational activities. We present...
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