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This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing additional information to exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the rules of the WTO system. It highlights new information generation and dissemination...
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strategic trade policy, the authors show that the impact of a negative rainfall shock on optimal import tariffs is generally … reducing import tariffs. These findings are robust to alternative assumptions about market structure and the timing of the game …. Using detailed panel data on applied tariffs and rainfall for 70 nations, the authors find robust evidence that rainfall …
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This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses an empirical strategy based on an error correction model to assess whether the global trade slowdown is structural or cyclical. An estimate of the relationship between trade and...
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Agricultural markets in OECD countries have long been highly distorted by government policies. Traditional weighted average aggregates of the price distortions involved, such as producer and consumer support estimates can be poor indicators of the trade restrictiveness and economic welfare...
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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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unique data set compiled from unpublished customs records of imports, tariffs and all other taxes levied at the border. It …
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Some governments are considering taxes on imports based on carbon content from countries that have not introduced climate change policies. Such carbon border taxes appeal to domestic industries facing higher charges for their own carbon emissions. This research demonstrates that there are...
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database, the Household Impacts of Tariffs data set, which contains harmonized household survey and tariff data for 54 low- and …. Using a stylized model of the first-order impacts of import tariffs on household real income, this paper quantifies the … welfare implications of agricultural trade protection. On average, unilateral elimination of agricultural tariffs would …
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controlling for importing firm-related fixed effects. Second, on average, firms'FTA use reduces tariffs by 12 percentage points …
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