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Regional trade agreements have proliferated in the past two decades while multilateral trade negotiations have stalled. Both these agreements are governed by the WTO and have to abide by the non-discriminatory (Most-Favored Nation, MFN) clause to varying degrees-regional agreements to a lesser...
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revenue finances the provision of a public good, marginal migration reduces social welfare in the source country and raises it … migration has an ambiguous impact on social welfare in either country. When tariff revenue in either country is either equally … effect on social welfare in the host country, and is expected to reduce social welfare in the source. …
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This paper examines the welfare implications of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) from the perspective of small … tariffs in these two cases considering three different equilibria: Free Trade (FT), Free Trade Area (FTA), and Customs Union …
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reduces the potency of a country's optimal tariffs and therefore its incentive for unilaterally opting out of trade …
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‘go first’. In our model, there are substantive welfare implications depending on which party sets tariff rates (or …’s surplus, OECD producers’ loss, net exports of developing countries, firm profits, or even, world welfare as the sum of all …
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We analyze the effect of the Byrd Amendment, which amended the US Tariff Act of 1930 to allow revenue from antidumping duties to be distributed to domestic import-competing firms. In an international duopoly framework it is shown that it urges the home firm to restrict output so that the foreign...
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This paper outlines a fantasy research pitch exercise conducted in a PhD course at the University of Queensland. Using Faff's (2015, 2017) pitching research template, students attending the course were asked to engage in a group exercise to pitch a "fantasy" research topic. While the final...
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The global language of scholarly research is English and so the obstacle of getting noticed is montainous when the article is not written in the English language. Indeed, despite rapid advances in technology, the "tyranny of language" creates a segmentation inhibiting scholarly research and...
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We study whether and how EU banks comply with tighter macroprudential policy (MPP). Observing contractual details for more than one million securitized loans, we document an elusive risk-shifting response by EU banks in reaction to tighter loan-to-value (LTV) restrictions between 2009 and 2022....
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This study presents the results of an ex-ante assessment of the accessibility and equity impacts of a subway expansion in Fortaleza (Brazil). We analyze how the number of jobs, health facilities, and schools accessible by public transportation is expected to change with the implementation of a...
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