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The financial costs of the U.S.-China trade tensions : evidence from East Asian stock markets

De Nicola, Francesca; Kessler, Martin; Nguyen, Ha - 2019

This paper examines the impacts of U.S.-China trade tensions via the lens of East Asian stock markets. Studying 10 indices of the main East Asian stock markets, it finds that announcements of "trade war" escalation translated into 50 to 60 percent of the total declines in two major Chinese stock...

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The textile-clothing value chain in India and Bangladesh : how appropriate policies can promote (or inhibit) trade and investment

Kabir, Mahfuz; Singh, Surendar; Ferrantino, Michael Joseph - 2019

There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector …. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to … Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final apparel segment, exporting worldwide as well as to India. Tariffs and …

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Latin American growth : a trade perspective

Torre, Augusto de la; Ize, Alain - 2019

This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...

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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy

Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019

This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the...

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Trade wars : what do they mean? : why are they happening now? : what are the costs?

Mattoo, Aaditya; Staiger, Robert W. - 2019

How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? This paper offers an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that typically offered by economic commentators. More...

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Traders' dilemma : developing countries' response to trade disputes

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Go, Delfin S.; Lakatos, Csilla; … - 2018

If trade tensions between the United States and certain trading partners escalate into a full-blown trade war, what should developing countries do? Using a global, general-equilibrium model, this paper first simulates the effects of an increase in U.S. tariffs on imports from all regions to...

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Trade policy to catalyze export diversification what should landlocked fragile countries do? : the cases of Mali, Chad, and Niger

López-Cálix, José Roberto; Pitigala, Nihal - 2019

The landlocked and fragile countries Mali, Niger, and Chad have suffered, to varying degrees, from Dutch Disease, with high export concentration in natural resource commodities and in a few foreign markets, and little development of their non-resource economies. The three countries' ability to...

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When elephants make peace : the impact of the China-U.S. trade agreement on developing countries

Freund, Caroline L.; Maliszewska, Maryla; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2020

Should the China-U.S. trade agreement prompt relief because it averts a damaging trade war or concern because selective preferential access for the United States to China's markets breaks multilateral rules against discrimination? The answer depends on how China implements the agreement....

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Applied services trade policy : a guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index

Borchert, Ingo; Gootiiz, Batshur; Magdeleine, Joscelyn; … - 2020

This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly 10 years ago and draws on a recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...

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The evolution of services trade policy since the Great Recession

Borchert, Ingo; Magdeleine, Joscelyn; Marchetti, Juan A.; … - 2020

Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, this paper draws on a new World Bank-World Trade Organization Services Trade Policy Database. The paper analyzes the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad...

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