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the subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run …
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Middle East and North Africa countries and 20 comparator countries around the world, this paper shows that the Middle East …
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This paper studies a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows researchers to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, duality techniques can be employed to study the equilibrium and, despite...
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down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …
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A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. This paper investigates the role of occupational mobility on the effects of...
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There is a large body of research that explores international trade as a source of the dispersion in income levels and growth performances across countries. The trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 fold growth in the volume of international trade....
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Do Southern African Development Community countries trade enough with each other and with the rest of the world …? Although its share of world trade has fallen, appropriate benchmarking shows that, controlling for gross domestic product and … each other than they do with the rest of the world. In this sense, and contrary to stylized fears, the Southern African …
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world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, they extend the …
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The Belt and Road Initiative seeks to deepen China's international integration by improving infrastructure and strengthening trade and investment linkages with countries along the old Silk Road, thereby linking it to Europe. This paper uses detailed bilateral trade data for 1995-2015 to assess...
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How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, this paper introduces supply chain linkages into a workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with...
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