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GROUNDNUT TRADE LIBERALIZATION: A SOUTH-SOUTH DEBATE?
Beghin, John C.; Diop, Ndiame; Matthey, Holger; … - 2003
We use a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model to analyze trade and agricultural policies affecting markets for peanut/groundnut products. The model covers four goods in thirteen countries/regions, including a large set of developing countries. Welfare is evaluated by looking...
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I've been everywhere (except Mexico) : investor responses to NAFTA's cross-border trucking provisions
Davies, Ronald B.; Liebman, Benjamin H.; Tomlin, Kasaundra - 2015
We investigate the response of US trucking firms to the removal of barriers to crossborder trucking under NAFTA. This was done via a program implemented in 2007, cancelled in 2009, and reinstated in 2011. We find that, unsurprisingly, the program's start resulted in lower stock returns,...
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Trade liberalization in the presence of domestic regulations : public policies applied to EU and U.S. wine markets
Rickard, Bradley J.; Gergaud, Olivier; Ho, Shuay-Tsyr; … - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 18, pp. 2028-2047
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Measuring Protection: Mission Impossible?
Salvatici, Luca; Cipollina, Maria - 2006
In the international trade literature there seems to be some confusion between "openness" and "protection" measures … extent of the protection granted by policies rather than on the degree of openness of the economy. Given the huge size of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443012
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Modelling Euro-Mediterranean Agricultural Trade
Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Martinez-Gomez, Victor; … - 2006
This paper examines the methodological problems to define a modelling approach to assess the impact of full or limited bilateral liberalisation of agricultural trade flows in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The bilateral trade liberalisation process in the region is framed by complexity, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443013
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EU Trade Policies: Benchmarking Protection in a General Equilibrium Framework
Antimiani, Alessandro; Salvatici, Luca - 2005
protection based on the applied tariffs faced by each exporter. In order to do this, an index of trade policy restrictiveness is … computed, using the Mercantilistic Trade Restrictiveness Index as the tariff aggregator. We also analyze the protection granted … to each sector by the existing tariff structure. In this report, we compute effective rates of protection that overcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443017
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The Prophecies of the Naysayers - Assessing the Vision of the Protectionists in the U.S.-Canada Debate on Agricultural Reciprocity, 1846-1854
Kerr, William A.; Forgrave, Robert J. - 2003
Debates over proposals to liberalise international trade are often heated and acrimonious. They are often argued, in part, on the basis of projections of market conditions after the proposed liberalisation. These argument are often important in influencing trade policy decisions, yet their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443938
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How Cool is C.O.O.L.?
Dinopoulos, Elias; Livanis, Grigorios T.; West, Carol - 2005
– caused by a reduction in protection – is better than less trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446863
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Revenue motives and trade liberalization in an endogenous tariff model
Gang, Ira N. - 1994
-maker would respond to lower world prices by reducing tariff protection for an import-competing industry. An initial tariff that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577171