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Australian and American tariffs policies: do they rock or tango?
Cassette, Aurélie; Farvaque, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper disentangles between two hypotheses on the determinants of Australia's and the US' average tariffs levels. Relying on historical data that covers a century (1904 to 2005), it is first shown that a break in the series occurs in 1947, forcing to separate the data into two sub-periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621624
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Australian and American tariffs policies: do they rock or tango?
Cassette, Aurélie; Farvaque, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper disentangles between two hypotheses on the determinants of Australia's and the US' average tariffs levels. Relying on historical data that covers a century (1904 to 2005), it is first shown that a break in the series occurs in 1947, forcing to separate the data into two sub-periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621711
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Hidden Protectionism? Evidence from Non-tariff Barriers to Trade in the United States
Grundke, Robert; Moser, Christoph - CESifo - 2014
Are product standards protectionism in disguise? This paper estimates the costs of non-compliance with U.S. product standards, using a new database on U.S. import refusals from 2002 to 2012. We find that import refusals significantly decrease exports to the United States. This trade reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103394
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Hidden Protectionism? Evidence from Non-tariff Barriers to Trade in the United States
Moser, Christoph; Grundke, Robert - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2014
Are product standards protectionism in disguise? This paper estimates the costs of non-compliance with U.S. product standards, using a new database on U.S. import refusals from 2002 to 2012. We find that import refusals significantly decrease exports to the United States. This trade reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105538
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Identifying Trade and Investment Opportunities
ESCAP, United Nations - In: Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: …
The traditional developed economies of the Group of Three (G3)-the European Union, Japan and the United States- all face economic slowdown, and acceptance is growing that the Asia-Pacific region will be the world's next engine of economic growth. Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224849
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Fuelling the fisheries subsidy debate: Agreements, loopholes and implications
Harper, Sarah; Bevacqua, Daniele; Chudnow, Rachel; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
There is a general consensus that most subsidies to fisheries, particularly fuel subsidies, are harmful to both the … economy and the environment. As the World Trade Organization struggles to come to an agreement on fisheries subsidies … it appears that their support for a ban on fisheries subsidies may be contingent upon a legal pun, which would allow them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861443
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The Pattern of Foreign Market Entry of Canadian Exporters
Sui, Sui; Yu, Zhihao - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
entry by 6,079 Canadian exporters. We have found that fewer firms are choosing the United States as their initial export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258612
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United States Economic Policy Toward Asia
Noland, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The relationship between the US and Asia will be the single biggest determinant in the evolution of the global economic system. In the absence of adequate reform at the global level, the alternative could be further fragmentation into competing regional blocs. Asia holds the key, combining both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025699
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Can Canada Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Why just wanting it is not enough
Dawson, Laura - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 340
In late 2011, Canada indicated it wanted to join negotiations underway among nine countries towards a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on trade. It is important for Canada to be at the table in these talks, which currently involve economies comprising 28 percent of world GDP. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534935
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The Australia–US Free Trade Agreement - An Assessment
Dee, Philippa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Australia and the United States signed a bilateral trade agreement in 2004. This paper analyses the provisions of the agreement, compares the provisions with other bilateral and multilateral agreements and comments on the modelling that the Australian Government used to estimate the likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363370