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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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Canada-Wheat : Discrimination, Non-Commercial Considerations, and State Trading Enterprises
Trachtman, Joel P. - 2016
purchase and sales prices of commodities are a type of state trading enterprise that is subject to World Trade Organization … disciplines. This paper assesses a recent dispute brought by the United States against Canada, alleging that WTO rules require … WTO regarding state trading enterprises was nondiscrimination, and that operating on the basis of commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747625
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Antidumping, Retaliation Threats, and Export Prices
Avsar, Veysel - 2017
Utilizing four-dimensional (firm-product-destination-year) Brazilian firm-level export data, the paper shows that antidumping (AD) duties result in a significant and dramatic increase in the unit values of the products that firms export to duty-imposing countries. Furthermore, it examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974696
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Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union : Tariff and Non-Tariff Policy Challenges
Ferrantino, Michael J. - 2017
This paper assesses issues relating to tariffs and nontariff measures (NTMs) in relation to Russia's World Trade … Organization (WTO) and Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) commitments. The analysis finds that full implementation of Russia's WTO tariff … Kazakhstan, would increase by an estimated $194 million, measured against a 2008 baseline. The impact of NTMs in Russia and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968701
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Effect of Stress on Later-Life Health : Evidence from the Vietnam War Draft
Cawley, John - 2017
adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction in the United States during the Vietnam War. The paper … associations exist only for men who did not serve in the war, and are not present for women or men who did serve. These findings … add to the evidence on the lasting consequences of stress, and indicate that induction risk during the Vietnam War may, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956218
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Growth after War in Syria
Devadas, Sharmila - 2019
of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates …
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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017
effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the Islamic State on the Levant. Syria and Iraq bear the brunt of the direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972401
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War and Women's Work : Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal
Menon, Nidhiya - 2017
the impact of war on women's employment decisions. The results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency …, women's employment probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975858
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The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access : Evidence from the First Indochina War
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851523
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The Gatt's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this … starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff … relatively more in the late 1940s and early 1950s for a core group of GATT participants (the United States, United Kingdom …
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