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The Changing Nature of Protectionism: Are "Free Traders" Up to the Challenges It Presents?

Kerr, William A. - 2004

benefits must be balanced against the expected political benefits of protectionism (and their associated welfare costs) when … biased toward protectionism, particularly if trade restrictions are a source of corruption incomes. This article explains the … sources of new appeals for protectionism, outlines the relationship with traditional producer protectionism and lays out the …

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Are Standards Always Protectionist?

Marette, Stephan; Beghin, John C. - 2007

potential protectionism, the standard is useful in correcting the consumption externality in the domestic country. Protectionism …

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Disentangling the Demand-enhancing Effect and Trade-cost Effect of Technical Measures in Agricultural Trade among OECD countries

Xiong, Bo; Beghin, John - 2011

Domestic technical measures such as SPS and TBTs can enhance import demand via information disclosure and quality improvement, or hamper foreign export supply via imposing sizeable compliance costs, or both. The traditional gravity equation model estimates the net effect of these measures on...

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Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence

Broda, Christian; Limão, Nuno; Weinstein, David E. - 2007

The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to the foreign export elasticities they face goes back to Edgeworth (1894). Despite the centrality of the optimal tariff argument in trade policy, there exists no evidence about whether countries actually...

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Export specialization and economic growth

Plumper, T; Graff, M - 2001

Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...

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The globalisation of the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry : lessons for other countries

Marks, Andrew - 2009

Protectionism played a pivotal role in establishing and nurturing the growth of the Australian passenger motor vehicle … run, protectionism simultaneously led to an inefficient inward looking industry which could not compete against the …

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Tariff protectionist measures and Spanish goods exports

Gutiérrez Chacón, Eduardo; Martín Machuca, César

Artículo de revista ; The rise in global protectionist tensions in recent years has, after decades of across-the-board declines, entailed increases in tariffs that are proving detrimental to international trade and thereby affecting the Spanish economy’s external sector outlook. This article...

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The effect of tariffs on Spanish goods exports

Gutiérrez Chacón, Eduardo; Martín Machuca, César - 2021

protectionism in the form of tariff barriers on Spanish goods exports. The Spanish economy has signicantly increased its degree of …

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The costs of trade protectionism : evidence from Spanish firms and non-tariff measures

Kirpichev, Dmitri; Moral Benito, Enrique - 2018

La implantación de medidas proteccionistas no arancelarias se ha asociado a la debilidad del comercio mundial en los últimos años. En este trabajo investigamos los efectos que dichas barreras comerciales no arancelarias pueden haber tenido en el crecimiento de las exportaciones españolas...

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World economic outlook for 2019

Río, Pedro del; Gordo, Esther

Artículo de revista ; Recent weaknesses in the world economy have prompted a downward revision of forecasts for 2019. The baseline projection scenario points to a widespread easing of growth, albeit more so in some areas than in others, against a backdrop of high uncertainty and significant...

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