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On the effectiveness of carbon-motivated border tax adjustments

Whalley, John - Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade … - 2009

As governments consider commitments to reduce carbon emissions, an accompanying question is what adjustments are appropriate to counteract any competitive disadvantage to domestic producers resulting from such commitments, particularly in the European Union, the United States and other...

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The environmental regime in developing countries

Jha, Raghbendra; Whalley, John - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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Recent regional agreements: why so many, why so much variance in form, why coming so fast, and where are they headed?

Whalley, John - 2006

Recent years have seen a sharp growth in the number of regional agreements both concluded and under negotiation. This paper attempts to document and discuss this growth focusing on US, EU, Chinese, Indian and other agreements. The form, coverage, and content of these agreements varies...

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Recent Regional Agreements : Why so Many, Why so Much Variance in Form, Why Coming so Fast, and Where are They Headed?

Whalley, John - 2021

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China's Post Accession WTO Stance

Whalley, John; Mallon, Glenda - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

We discuss China's stance in the WTO post-accession, noting the many issues with implementation of China's accession … terms by 2007. We evaluate how much benefit China can realistically receive from WTO membership given current problems with … dumping actions against China and trade restrictions against textile and apparel exports. We discuss emerging WTO and non-WTO …

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Model Structure and the Combined Welfare and Trade Effects of China's Trade Related Policies

Whalley, John; Dong, Yan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Because China's economic structure is different from that in OECD countries, using conventional neo-classical competitive trade models to analyze the welfare and trade impacts of trade related policy change can be misleading. In particular, both the exchange rate regime and output and pricing...

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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in GDP/capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization

Whalley, John; Wang, Jing; Medianu, Dana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper focuses on the contribution to recent narrowing of the gap between Northern and Southern economies in GDP/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three currently largest rapidly growing Southern...

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Gains and Losses from Potential Bilateral US-China Trade Retaliation

Whalley, John; Dong, Yan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Two closely related numerical general equilibrium models of world trade are used to analyze the potential consequences of US-China bilateral retaliation on trade flows and welfare. One is a conventional Armington trade model with five regions, the US, China, EU, Japan and Rest of the World, and...

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The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and Its Impacts on Trade

Whalley, John; Chen, Hejing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper assesses the impacts of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) on trade in both goods and services …

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Demand Side Considerations and the Trade and Wages Debate

Whalley, John; Abrego, Lisandro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

Recent trade and wages literature focuses on whether trade or technology has been the major source of increases in wage inequality in OECD countries since the 1980s. In this literature, no attention has been paid to demand side considerations. Using a simple heterogeneous goods trade model of...

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