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Does Input Tariff Reduction Impact Firms'Exports in the Presence of Import Tariff Exemption Regimes?
Cruz, Marcio - 2017
In the last decade Morocco undertook substantial, if gradual, trade liberalization by reducing tariffs, reforming trade regulations and signing free and preferential trade agreements with several regions and countries, including the United States, Turkey, the European Union and Arab countries....
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Policy and Performance in Customs : Evaluating the Trade Facilitation Agreement
Hillberry, Russell H. - 2018
The 2013 World Trade Organization ministerial in Bali produced a comprehensive framework agreement on trade … best practice in all policies by all World Trade Organization members would reduce the predicted time spent in customs by … points on exports. The same estimates are used to calculate welfare gains of policy reform by World Trade Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937418
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Trade Effects of Customs Reform : Evidence from Albania
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
Despite enormous academic interest in international trade costs and keen policy interest in efforts to mitigate them, so far there is very little hard evidence on the impacts of trade facilitation efforts. This paper exploits a dramatic reduction in the rate of physical inspections by Albanian...
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Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas Too Ambitious for Success?
Laborde, David - 2017
This paper views tariff-cutting formulas as a potential solution to the free-rider problem that arises when market opening is negotiated bilaterally and extended on a most-favored-nation basis. The negotiators in the Doha Agenda chose formulas that are ideal from an economic efficiency viewpoint...
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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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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
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What?S Left for the WTO?
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
Suppose that when addressing the question of ?what?s left for the WTO?,? tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...
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Wider Economic Benefits of Transport Corridors : Evidence from International Development Organizations
Alam, Muneeza Mehmood - 2019
International Cooperation Agency, and World Bank and links them to one important wider economic benefit -- local economic activity …
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Global Recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
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Emerging and Developing Economies : Ten Years after the Global Recession
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
Although emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) weathered the global recession a decade ago relatively well, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the room for monetary and fiscal policies to respond to...
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