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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … results show that WTO commitments significantly reduce the probability of a tariff increase, even when the bound tariff is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124456
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Trade Policy Uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … results show that WTO commitments significantly reduce the probability of a tariff increase, even when the bound tariff is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115517
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Perpetuating the global division of labour: defensive free trade and development in the third world
Halabi, Yakub - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 20 (2013) 1, pp. 91-120
This article contains an examination of whether free trade coupled with the neoliberal principles of the Washington Consensus has been turned into a defensive strategy used by developed countries in order to maintain and perpetuate the division of labour in the global market between developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888024
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Politique de concurrence contre politique industrielle en Europe
Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905365
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Differences in the Determinants and Targeting of Antidumping: China and India Compared
Meng, Ning; Milner, Chris; Song, Huasheng - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and … - 2014
Despite both being developing countries, China and India have markedly contrasting patterns in their use and targeting of antidumping (AD) measures. We explore the factors driving AD use by these two countries, considering in turn macroeconomic, strategic and other determinants. We find more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941073
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Trade and the Pattern of European Imperialism, 1492-2000
Bonfatti, Roberto - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
I construct a trade model of empire, and use it to interpret some of the key patterns in the history of European imperialism.  I begin from the observation that trade was a key source of wealth for the colonies, and trade restrictions a key tool of extraction for colonial powers.  But the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004167
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Regulatory Transparency in Multilateral Agreements Controlling Exports of Tropical Timber, E-Waste and Conflict Diamonds
Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de …; … - 2012
Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007559
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Global Supply Chains, Currency Undervaluation, and Firm Protectionist Demands
Jensen, J. Bradford; Quinn, Dennis P.; Weymouth, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We examine firm participation in global supply chains to help explain a puzzling decline in protectionist demands in the U.S. despite increased import competition and ongoing currency undervaluation. To explain firm responses to undervaluation, we rely on advances in the international trade...
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Streamlining NTMs in ASEAN: The Way Forward
CADOT, Olivier; MUNADI, Ernawati; ING, Lili Yan - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2013
The findings show that the incidence of non tariff measures (NTMs) in ASEAN is moderate in comparison with other regions of the world. The econometrically-estimated ad valorem equivalents also seem comparable with other countries. The challenge is to design NTMs so as to maximize their...
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Electoral regime and trade policy
Hatfield, John William; Hauk, William R. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 518-534
We study how trade protection varies with the electoral rules for legislative representation. In particular, we investigate different hypotheses about why trade policy differs between countries with legislatures elected by a plurality election rule in single member constituencies and...
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