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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974687
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Determinants of Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis
Gawande, Kishore - 2017
more severe than, the Great Depression of 1930, but did not give rise to the rampant protectionism that followed the Great …. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975670
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Arbitrating and Mediating Disputes : Benchmarking Arbitration and Mediation Regimes for Commercial Disputes Related to Foreign Direct Investment
Pouget, Sophie - 2017
investment inflows and inflows per capita, the Doing Business 2013 Enforcing Contracts data, the World Bank Group's Governance … Indicators, the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Indicators, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency …'s World Investment and Political Risk data. The paper concludes by identifying several opportunities for improvement, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973934
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Deep Trade Agreements and Vertical FDI : The Devil is in the Details
Osnago, Alberto - 2017
Recent data show that the institutional content of preferential trade agreements has evolved over time. Although pre-1990s preferential trade agreements mostly focused on tariff liberalization, recent agreements increasingly contain deep provisions in diverse areas, such as intellectual property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970742
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A Bit Far? Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Emerging Markets
Gomez-Mera, Laura - 2019
How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901103
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Regional Trade Policy Options for Tanzania : The Importance of Services Commitments
Jensen, Jesper - 2017
Despite the growing importance of commitments to foreign investors in services in regional trade agreements, there are no applied general equilibrium models in the literature that assess these regional impacts. This paper develops a 52 sector applied general equilibrium model of Tanzania with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976282
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Cotton Subsidies, the WTO, and The'Cotton Problem'
Baffes, John - 2017
Following an 8-year long dispute over cotton subsidies, Brazil and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding on April 21, 2010, effectively paving the way for settling the dispute. This paper argues that cotton subsidies are just the tip of the iceberg while a number of other,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976001
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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833536
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The Global Costs of Protectionism
Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa - 2017
This paper quantifies the wide-ranging costs of potential increases in worldwide barriers to trade in two scenarios. First, a coordinated global withdrawal of tariff commitments from all existing bilateral/regional trade agreements, as well as from unilateral preferential schemes coupled with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941321
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Grain Price Spikes and Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy Responses : A Global Economywide Analysis
Jensen, Hans Grinsted - 2017
results support the conclusion from earlier studies that there is a need for stronger World Trade Organization disciplines on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972865