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This paper analyzes international trade in value added products when free trade and perfect competition in the market for an intermediate product, such as raw fish, are the exception rather than the rule. Current evidence from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) regarding disputes...
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The softwood lumber trade dispute between Canada and the United States has centered on the debate over the existence of a stumpage subsidy in Canada and recently on dumping by the Canadian softwood lumber producers in the U.S. markets. This thesis contains three essays that investigate the...
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This study examines the response of Korean steel firms after being assessed antidumping duties in the United States ….S. and have had to adjust their strategies accordingly. This study examines traditional alternatives to counter antidumping … there is a positive, yet insignificant, relationship between U.S. antidumping duties and Korean steel exports to an …
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Many studies have shown a relationship between antidumping duty and collusion. These studies, however, only focus on … firms. This dissertation explores how the antidumping duty on downstream goods can affect collusive behavior in an upstream … effect of the antidumping duty on collusive behavior. Under a set of discount rate, whether is influenced by a tariff or the …
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This dissertation analyzes the trading effects and the politics of antidumping. The first essay empirically examines … the influence of partisanship on antidumping. I show that an increase in the leftist orientation of the government makes … labor intensive industries less likely to file an antidumping petition. I also demonstrate that the increase in the leftist …
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada … for the successful implementation of world-class practices. The Shingo Prize emphasises the improvement of operations and … processes, the adoption of proven world-class practices, the use of specific measurements related to quality and process …
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effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...
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interpreted as the world business cycle. The further components suggest the existence of a Scandinavian-Anglo-Saxon business cycle …
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