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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481988
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Trade Invaders: How big business is driving the EU-India free trade negotiations
Eberhardt, Pia; Kumar, Dharmendra - 2010
India and the EU launched negotiations on a far-ranging free trade agreement (FTA) in 2007, including trade in goods, the deregulation of services, investment, government procurement and the strict enforcement of intellectual property rights. The aim is to conclude the agreement in early 2011....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468689
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Quantifying APEC trade liberalization: a dynamic analysis
McKibbin, Warwick J - 1996
The Bogor Declaration of 1994 proposed free trade in the Asia Pacific region by the year 2020. If implemented as announced, this program will have important implications for the world economy over the next few decades. This paper uses a new dynamic multi-sector global model called the...
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The Three Faces of Trade Liberalization: Unilateral, Preferential, and Multilateral
KARACAOVALI, BAYBARS - 2006
There is a growing number of studies that investigate the effect of trade liberalization on productivity and nearly all assume that trade policy is independently determined of productivity, hence it is exogenous. I show that this assumption is generally invalid both theoretically and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450823
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443941
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445585
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445870
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009472549
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Export specialization and economic growth
Plumper, T; Graff, M - 2001
favourable sectors. According to new growth theory, favourable sectors inhibit technological spill-over effects to the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448494
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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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