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Political Influence in a New Antidumping Regime: Evidence from Mexico

Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - 2004

We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s antidumping regime, considering both the characteristics of target … countries subject to antidumping duties and industry-specific factors for sectors receiving protection. Our results are broadly … political benefits of providing protection. They are also in line with the existing empirical literature on antidumping, which …

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Business cycles, the current account, and administered protection in Mexico

Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - 2003

Antidumping actions in the United States and EU are knownto be linked to macroeconomic conditions. In part, this is …

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Political influence in a new antidumping regime : evidence from Mexico

Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - 2004

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Victims of progress : economic integration, specialization, and wages for unskilled labor

Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2000

In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased trade flows or increased MNE-based production....

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Services trade and policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...

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Trade in financial services : procompetitive effects and growth performance

Francois, Joseph F.; Schuknecht, Lutger - 1999 - Rev.

In this paper we explore linkages between financial services tradeand growth. We offer aformalization of the argument that trade, through the fostering offinancial market integration,may yield important long-run effects related to increasedcompetition. The relationshipsformalized here link...

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Market structure, trade liberalization and the GATS

Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2000

In this paper we examine the interaction between the different modesof market access commitments inservices (cross-border and establishment) market structure, andregulation. In this context, we focus on theimpact of improved domestic market access for a foreign serviceprovider on a domestic...

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Trade liberalization and developing countries under the Doha round

Francois, Joseph F.; Meijl, Hans van; Tongeren, Frank W. van - 2003

We explore the impact of multilateral liberalization, with emphasison distributional effects across countries. We first develop a realistic base1ine that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of the EU, allowing us to focus on those effects that...

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Trade policy and the household distribution of income

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004

We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...

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Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M.; Manchin, Miriam - 2005

Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate intoworsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization.We examine the actual scope for preference erosion,...

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