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The US-China trade war forced a reluctant semiconductor industry into someone else’s fight, a very different position … from its leading role in the 1980s trade conflict with Japan. This paper describes how the political economy of the global …
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This paper provides a legal-economic analysis of the Appellate Body decision in Brazil - Retreaded Tyres. We develop a simple economic model that we use to analyze the market structure and environmental externalities that were most relevant to this case. We start by analyzing Brazil's policies...
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examine the trade destruction and trade diversion associated with Japanese exports to the US market resulting from US AD … these US policies on Japanese exports to the EU. We document sizable trade deflection and trade depression in the EU market … increase in exports. Finally, we present evidence that US ADDs impose terms-of-trade externalities on non-targeted markets. We …
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The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports …
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This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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This paper estimates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on the trade policies of thirteen major emerging economies over … the extensive margin. New import restrictions on products arise through the temporary trade barriers (TTBs) - antidumping …, safeguards, and countervailing duties - that have become some of the most important time-varying trade policies in use. Our …
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We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to … equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, therelationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade gains … and losses,the implications of distinct national markets linked through trade (thestarting point for all trade theorists …
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We examine how theoretical and quantitative economic analysis has and can be used in this stage of the DSU process. First, we identify, characterize, and categorize the major classes of disputes e.g., those affecting import protection versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger...
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Almost all WTO dispute panels exceed their statutory time limits. This is often seen to indicate a more general problem for panels to manage their tasks. The time required varies considerably across panels however, suggesting that they do not face the same problems. To shed light on these...
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