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Deep Trade Agreements and Heterogeneous Firms Exports
Neri-Lainé, Matteo; Orefice, Gianluca; Ruta, Michele - 2023
This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms' exports. Using detailed information on the content of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the depth of trade agreements matters for the export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377411
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Trade in Developing East Asia : How It Has Changed and Why It Matters
Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina - 2019
East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that may threaten the very model of labor intensive industrialization and a backlash against globalization that may reduce access to important markets. The analysis in this article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895806
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Policy Uncertainty, Trade, and Global Value Chains : Some Facts, Many Questions
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2019
This paper attempts to quantify the impact of economic policy uncertainty on overall trade and trade linked to global value chains. Using new data on policy uncertainty for 18 countries and 24 years, it finds a statistically significant negative impact of policy uncertainty on overall trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859345
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Deep trade agreements and heterogeneous firms exports
Neri-Lainé, Matteo; Orefice, Gianluca; Ruta, Michele - 2023
This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms' exports. Using detailed information on the content of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the depth of trade agreements matters for the export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282415
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Deep Trade Agreements and Heterogeneous Firms Exports
Neri-Lainé, Matteo; Orefice, Gianluca; Ruta, Michele - 2023
This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms’ exports. Using detailed information on the content of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the depth of trade agreements matters for the export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356326
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Is 3d Printing a Threat to Global Trade? The Trade Effects You Didn't Hear About
Freund, Caroline L.; Mulabdic, Alen; Ruta, Michele - 2021
In the mid-2000s, the production of hearing aids shifted almost entirely to 3D printing. Using difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods, this paper examines the effects of this shift on trade flows. The analysis finds that trade increased roughly 60 percent following the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215452
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On the Political Substitutability between Tariffs and Subsidies
Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 145 (2009) 4, pp. 405-410
This paper provides a simple model that highlights the political substitutability between import tariffs and production … sector induce the government to set inefficiently high tariffs and subsidies. If the government commits the tariff to a lower … equilibrium obtain) a larger production subsidy. This political substitutability between tariffs and subsidies is shown to reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933204
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Natural resources and non-cooperative trade policy
Latina, Joelle; Piermartini, Roberta; Ruta, Michele - 2011 - Manuscript date: March 2011
When looking at the conditions of trade in natural resources the world appears upside down: tariff protection in natural resources sectors is generally lower than for overall merchandise trade, while export restrictions are twice as likely as in other sectors. On the other hand, tariff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007187
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On the Political Substitutability between Tariffs and Subsidies
Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 145 (2009) IV, pp. 405-410
This paper provides a simple model that highlights the political substitutability between import tariffs and production … sector induce the government to set inefficiently high tariffs and subsidies. If the government commits the tariff to a lower … equilibrium obtain) a larger production subsidy. This political substitutability between tariffs and subsidies is shown to reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495366
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The economics of permissible WTO retaliation
Bown, Chad P.; Ruta, Michele - 2008
We examine how theoretical and quantitative economic analysis has and can be used in this stage of the DSU process. First, we identify, characterize, and categorize the major classes of disputes e.g., those affecting import protection versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326717