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How Different are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from Us Trade Policies Toward Steel
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Use of temporary trade barriers has proliferated across countries, industries, and even policy instruments. This paper constructs a panel of bilateral, product-level United States steel imports that are matched to a unique data set on trade policy exclusions that are associated with the 2002...
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Competition in Kenyan Markets and its Impact on Income and Poverty : A Case Study on Sugar and Maize
Argent, Jonathan - 2017
This paper investigates the link between competitive, well-functioning food markets and consumer welfare. The paper explores two key food markets in Kenya -- sugar and maize -- and argues that a variety of factors conspire to distort market prices upward. Distortionary factors include import...
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More than Copper : Toward the Diversification and Stabilization of Zambian Exports
Brülhart, Marius - 2017
This paper analyzes Zambian export patterns using a new transaction-level trade data set for the period 1999-2011. The data show that, in international comparison, Zambian exports are exceptionally concentrated (on mining products). This reliance has been increasing in recent years. Zambia's...
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Import Dynamics and Demands for Protection
Hillberry, Russell H. - 2017
What kinds of changes in foreign competition lead domestic industries to seek import protection? To address this question this paper uses detailed monthly U.S. import data to investigate changes in import composition during a 24-month window immediately preceding the filing of a petition for...
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Short-Term Impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom's Export of Goods
Kee, Hiau Looi - 2018
The short-term impact of Brexit on goods exports is assessed using the Overall Trade Restrictiveness Index of the United Kingdom's major trading partners. The analysis shows that in the short run, leaving the European Union may cause the United Kingdom's exports to the European Union to decrease...
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Fragmentation, Incomes, and Jobs : An Analysis of European Competitiveness
Timmer, Marcel P. - 2017
multi-sector, input-output model of the world economy. The analysis finds that since 1995, revealed comparative advantage of …
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Product Market Policies in Romania : A Comparison with EU Partners
De Rosa, Donato - 2017
Romania's European Union accession in 2007 has resulted in a substantial reduction of the formal barriers to integration with the European Union Single Market. This study takes stock of the progress by benchmarking product market policies in Romania to those of European Union countries, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973786
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Dealing With the Coffee Crisis in Central America : Impacts and Strategies
Varangis, Panos - 2016
Current coffee prices are at record lows and below the cost of production for many producers in Central America. Moreover, the coffee crisis is structural, and changes in supply and demand do not indicate a quick recovery of prices. So, coffee producers in Central America are facing new...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936297
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Trade and Civil Conflict : Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Calì, Massimiliano - 2017
This paper revisits and expands the evidence on the impact of trade shocks on intra-state conflict with a large sample of developing countries in the 1960-2010 period. The results suggest that increases in the prices of a country's exported commodities raise the country's risk of civil conflict...
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