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The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to the foreign export elasticities … exists no evidence about whether countries actually exploit their market power in trade by setting higher tariffs on goods … countries that are not members of the World Trade Organization systematically set higher tariffs on goods that are supplied …
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-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 estimates the effect of tariffs on Spanish non-energy, non-EU goods exports … drawing on data broken down by country of destination and type of product. The results show that an increase in tariffs …
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protectionism in the form of tariff barriers on Spanish goods exports. The Spanish economy has signicantly increased its degree of … obtain a database combining annual tariffs applied to Spanish products over the years 1995-2019 from WITS and bilateral extra …-EU Spanish goods exports from Eurostat, with a product disaggregation level at 6 digits. We estimate the effect of tariffs both …
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escalation of US-China trade tensions. The new tariffs have affected a significant percentage of Chinese exports to the United … amplify such adverse effects. Additionally, possible future auto sector tariffs could have a significant impact on European …
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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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potential protectionism, the standard is useful in correcting the consumption externality in the domestic country. Protectionism …
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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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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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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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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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