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"New" econometric evidence for the Baldwin-Richardson (1972)/Miyagiwa (1991) theoretical predictions in government procurement
Shingal, Anirudh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Baldwin and Richardson (1972) and Miyagiwa (1991) laid out the conditions under which a home-bias in public procurement is rendered ineffective as a protectionist device. Since then there has been little empirical work on this subject. In this paper, we bridge this gap by building a new dataset...
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Services procurement under the WTO’s agreement on government procurement: whither market access?
Shingal, Anirudh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the … awarded to foreign firms would have been more than 15 times higher in the case of Japan and nearly 68 times more in the case … of Switzerland. We also find that for the same services categories, the Japanese government is not purchasing as much …
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Foreign market access in government procurement
Shingal, ANIRUDH - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
’ buying decisions. Using self-assembled and hitherto unexplored data on government procurement submitted by Japan and … Switzerland to the WTO, we study the determinants of foreign public procurement over the period 1990-2003. In doing so, we make a …
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Do export promotion agencies increase exports?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Donghyun - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365995
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The Unabated Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements. The Case of EU and Japan
Ghibutiu, Agnes; Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 5 (2013) 3, pp. 27-31
- the EU, U.S. and Japan - in the most recent period. Our paper aims to address these new deals, as illustrated by the … current negotiations for a deep and comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and Japan launched in March 2013 …
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EU is Speeding Up Its Offensive Trade Policy. The New EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement
Ghibutiu, Agnes; Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 5 (2013) 2
In March 2013, the EU and Japan launched negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA). The EU also … announced starting of similar negotiations with the United States. Japan decided to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership under … significance of the EU-Japan FTA. It first discusses the new FTA from a broader perspective, focusing on the difficulties and …
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The New Goods Margin in Japanese-Chinese Trade
Dalton, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account … for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of Chinese exports to Japan after trade liberalization. For the case of … Chinese exports to Japan, a time series measure shows the growth in new goods coincides with the timing of the trade …
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The new goods margin in Japanese–Chinese trade
Dalton, John T. - In: Japan and the World Economy 31 (2014) C, pp. 8-13
, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account … for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of Chinese exports to Japan after trade liberalization. For the case of … Chinese exports to Japan, a time series measure shows the growth in new goods coincides with the timing of the trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010906889
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Trade Protection and Bureaucratic Corruption : An Empirical Investigation
Dutt, Pushan - 2007
This paper examines whether protectionist policies on the part of the government leads to increased corruption on part of the bureaucracy. A one-sector small open economy model is presented where corruption is shown to be increasing in tariffs and subsidies. Using multiple measures of corruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012732026
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Determinants of direct cross-border public procurement in EU Member States
Kutlina-Dimitrova, Zornitsa; Lakatos, Csilla - Directorate-General Trade, European Commission - 2014
The aim of this paper is to analyse the determinants of direct cross-border public procurement in the EU Member States. For this purpose, we use a unique dataset based on obligatory data published on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) which covers public procurement contract award notices for the...
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