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Reassessing effective protection rates in a trade in tasks perspective: Evolution of trade policy in factory Asia
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2012
With international trade moving from trade in (final) goods to trade in tasks, effective protection rates (EPRs) are back to the stage, allowing us to measure the overall protection of a product or sector by including the production structure and the origin of the inputs -domestic or imported....
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The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York, 1840-1950
White, Eugene N.; Bodenhorn, Howard - 2014
Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...
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EU-US trade structure and risks
Daly, Luke; Lawless, Martina - 2021
This paper maps out the trade relationship in goods between the two largest trading blocs in the global economy - the EU and US. We use detailed product category information to provide an in-depth description of current trade flows between the two markets, with a particular focus on how Irish-US...
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The Impact of Market Reforms on Competition, Structure and Performance of the Philippine Economy
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2005
The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel through which trade liberalization affects economic performance. Competition fosters innovation and technology adoption which leads to increases in competitiveness and growth...
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Welfare versus market access: The implications of tariff structure for tariff reform
Anderson, James E.; Neary, James Peter - 2004
We show that the effects of tariff changes on welfare and import volume can be fully characterised by their effects on the generalised mean and variance of the tariff distribution. Using these tools, we derive new results for welfare- and market-access-improving tariff changes, which imply two...
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Customs revenue in Ghana: Recent trends and their causes
Abrokwah, Edward; Bob-Eshun, Ebenezer; Conron, Harriet; … - 2021
The collection of tax revenue at customs has long been an important revenue source in Ghana. However, recent years have seen substantial falls in customs revenue collections, with the share of taxes collected at the country's ports falling from 42% in 2017 to 30% in 2019. With increasing tax...
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The economic impact of a ban on imports of air freithed organic products to the UK
Gibbon, Peter; Bolwig, Simon - 2007
Against the background of growing concern about climate change, some European private organic standard-setting bodies led by the Soil Association are considering whether to refuse certification of organic produce imported by air. Their right to determine the rules to which they certify produce,...
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Sugar market policies in the EU and international sugar trade
Berger, Jurij; Brümmer, Bernhard; Fiankor, Dela-Dem; … - 2021
In the EU, the 2017/18 sugar marketing year (MY) was the first with no production quota and most of the price support … gone. The Uruguay round restrictions on sugar exports were also not binding anymore, making the EU a net exporter. In MY …2018/19 the EU turned back into a net importer as domestic sugar production fell. Developments on the demand side have been …
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Trumps Importzölle auf Stahl und Aluminium
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 06, pp. 30-37
der Jahre 2005 bis 2016 zeigt, dass keine starke und plötzliche Zunahme der Importe der USA zu verzeichnen war und dass … verbündete Länder für den Großteil der Importe der USA verantwortlich zeichnen. Die Begründung der Zölle mit einer plötzlichen …
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