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Lifting Economic Sanctions on Iran : Global Effects and Strategic Responses

Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017

Iran with and without strategic responses. Iran benefits the most, with average per capita welfare gains ranging from close … to 3 percent, in the case when Iran's crude oil exports to the European Union recover to half their pre-embargo level, to … that enable a strong supply response, and increased market access for Iranian exports in developed markets. Iran could …

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Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices

Kee, Hiau Looi - 2016

The objective of this paper is to provide indicators of trade restrictiveness that include both measures of tariff and nontariff barriers for 91 developing and industrial countries. For each country, the authors estimate three trade restrictiveness indices. The first one summarizes the degree of...

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Regionalism in Services : A Study of ASEAN

Gootiiz, Batshur - 2017

Can regionalism do what multilateralism has so far failed to do?promote greater openness of services markets? Although previous research has pointed to the wider and deeper legal commitments under regional agreements as proof that it can, no previous study has assessed the impact of such...

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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant

Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017

This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the...

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Estimates of Ad Valorem Equivalents of Barriers Against Foreign Suppliers of Services in Eleven Services Sectors and 103 Countries

Jafari, Yaghoob - 2017

A new database on the barriers faced by foreign suppliers of services has been produced by the World Bank. Data for 103 countries are available on 11 of the most important services sectors in international trade. Based on these data and building on the methodology and publications supported by...

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Poverty Impacts of the Volume-Based Special Safeguard Mechanism

Ivanic, Maros - 2017

The volume-based Special Safeguard Mechanism was proposed as essential for small, poor farmers and became the proximate cause of the collapse of the Doha Agenda negotiations in 2008. But is it helpful for these farmers, given that it is likely to be applied when farm output is depressed and many...

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Use of Imported Inputs and the Cost of Importing : Evidence from Developing Countries

Islam, Asif - 2017

For a representative sample of manufacturing firms in 26 countries, this paper shows that changes in the cost of importing over time are significantly and negatively correlated with changes in the percentage of firms' material inputs that are of foreign origin. Furthermore, the paper shows that...

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What Do We Know About Preferential Trade Agreements and Temporary Trade Barriers?

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

Two of the most important trade policy developments to take place since the 1980s are the expansion of preferential trade agreements and temporary trade barriers, such as antidumping, safeguards, and countervailing duties. Despite the empirical importance of preferential trade agreements and...

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Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long-run political-economic costs and benefits. Empirical work examining the relationship between such commitments and the exercise of trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent,...

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Emerging Economies, Trade Policy, and Macroeconomic Shocks

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

This paper estimates the impact of aggregate fluctuations on the time-varying trade policies of thirteen major emerging economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these WTO member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports and 22 percent of world GDP. The paper examines...

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