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Bramucci, Alessandro - 2016

"offshoring", and provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of intermediate imported inputs on employment and wages in … offshoring on domestic labor demand and wages. The second section of the paper presents offshoring trends and discusses the … results of the econometric analysis. Results suggest that offshoring has a general negative impact on employment and wages …

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Offshoring Along the Production Chain

Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter - 2009

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous in terms of offshoring costs, or they may …

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Externalities of non-cooperative tax policy in the globally integrated market

Tomohara, Akinori - 2002

This paper investigates efficiency losses caused by independent tax systems and proposes ways of remedying this coordination failure Whereas the harmful effects of tariff competition have been thoroughly explored in the trade policy literature little is known about the externalities that result...

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...

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Cumulation and antidumping: A challenge to competition

Prusa, Thomas J. - 1998

Competition policy emerged as an important area of interest during the later stages of Uruguay Round negotiations. The task of establishing competition policy is complicated by the fact that there already are trade statutes---antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguard actions---that relate to...

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The Economics and Politics of Trade Policy: An Empirical Analysis of ITC Decision Making

Hansen, Wendy L.; Prusa, Thomas J. - 1996

We study the determinants of trade policy decisions focusing specifically on antidumping and countervailing duty statutes administered by the International Trade Commission (ITC). Using detailed industry, import, and political pressure data we model ITC decision making, weighing the relative...

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Structural conditions for currency internationalisation: International finance and the survival constraint

Angrick, Stefan - 2018

This paper examines the relationship between currency internationalisation and economic structure. It argues that the hierarchical and asymmetric architecture of the international monetary system imposes a "survival constraint" upon non-centre countries that obliges them to generate net inflows...

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Competition and the location of overseas assembly

Swenson, Deborah L. - 2006

How does international competition affect overseas outsourcing? While it is commonly believed that international competition enables firms to desert high cost countries in favor of low wage locations, the frequency of such responses may be reduced if the movement of outsourcing activities...

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Intergenerational effects of trade liberalization

Artuç, Erhan - 2009

2002 Pew Global Attitudes survey shows that workers' support for free trade decreases with age. The relation between age and supporting free trade is a phenomenon previously unexplored by economists. We study distributional effects of trade liberalization, in particular age and gains from free...

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Mode of Transport along the Quality Dimension

Jaimovich, Esteban; Merella, Vincenzo - 2021

Aeroplanes are a fast but expensive means of shipping goods, which allow producers to respond quickly to favourable demand realisations and to limit the risk of shipping unproÖtably large quantities during low demand periods while substantially raising the transportation cost relative to ocean...

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