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developing-country trade. Therefore, as part of a comprehensive agreement on climate change, new WTO rules could be negotiated … that would prohibit the extreme form of action while possibly allowing trade actions based on domestic carbon content as a …
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Most economic analyses of climate change have focused on the aggregate impact on countries of mitigation actions. We depart first in disaggregating the impact by sector, focusing particularly on manufacturing output and exports because of the potential growth consequences. Second, we decompose...
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, potentially creating pressure for trade action. A key factor affecting the impact of any border taxes is whether they are based on … seriously damage developing country trade. …
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The negotiations on trade in services at the WTO have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels unilaterally …
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There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to adapt. The Doha process focused on issues of limited significance while the burning issues of the day were not even on the negotiating agenda. The paper advances five...
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just the World Trade Organization but other multilateral institutions as well; and (5) despite shifts in economic power …
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This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …
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, namely on increasing international trade flows, and will review the evidence on the effect of trade on inequality. Second …
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Fears of rising wage inequality and job loss loom large in current debates on free trade. Surprisingly, however, there … exists little academic research on how to compensate those who lose from free trade. This policy paper reviews the existing … theoretical literature on trade and compensation, and derives guidelines on how to design compensation schemes in practice. The …
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trade liberalization on wage inequality. In the context of a dynamic trade model with costly labour mobility (Lechthaler and … Mileva, 2013), we show that the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality depends on i) the time horizon considered …, ii) the degree of worker mobility, and iii) the degree of trade liberalization (partial/full). In the short-run, observed …
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