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This paper presents a new measure of aggregate trade restrictions (MATR) using data from the International Monetary Fund's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is strongly correlated with existing measures of trade restrictiveness but is more comprehensive in...
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environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …
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theoretical understanding of the conflict, the empirical part of the paper provides estimates of import demand elasticity of the …
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We use China's growth experience as a laboratory to study how reductions in entry barrier contribute to economic growth by inducing a more competitive market structure. The removal of entry restrictions on private firms in the late 1990s and early 2000s made the Chinese economy more competitive...
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of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity … manufacturing sector, (ii) when we use a measure of import intensity, we find that a 100% increase in the share of imported inputs …-by-importing" hypothesis. Finally, we find that there is self- selection of more productive firms into the import market. The main conclusion …
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This paper uses customs transaction data covering all Chinese exporters and the World Bank's antidumping database to … investigate how they responded to Latin-American and Caribbean (LAC) antidumping measures during 2000-2012 period. The paper uses … extensive margin effect, we still observe a positive number of exporters exited the LAC market after antidumping measures …
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the market. Even when import of older vehicles was allowed in Pakistan, it was used Japanese vehicles that were imported …
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We develop a product-differentiated model where the product space is a network defined as a set of varieties (nodes) linked by their degrees of substitutability (edges). We also locate consumers into this network, so that the location of each consumer (node) corresponds to her "ideal" variety....
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The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We propose a simple model where firms producing varieties face labor-market frictions and credit constraints. In the model, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of...
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