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appear to have been insignificant. At the same time the change in tariffs appears to have created some trade diversion, with … a significantly negative impact on imports from China in particular and a significantly positive impact on imports from …
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) member states. The president of the US has proposed tariff increases, particularly on imports from Mexico and China to the US …, while the threat of protectionism also involves more direct tariffs against EU exports to the US. We apply a measurement … generated by Finland and other EU countries through Mexico and China to the US would decline drastically if the US launched …
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time to take stock of the outcomes for the U. S. economy. The result is nearly unequivocally negative, in particular, China …'s failure to fulfill its promises to dramatically increase U. S. imports. By the end of 2021, China had barely reached 40 % of … American importers have borne the brunt of the tariffs' costs. In the short run, apparently American importers had little …
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The primary purpose of this paper is to seek empirical answers to the above question. Using a highly disaggregated bilateral trade flows at HS 6 digit level for African countries for a period 1995-2009 and a conditional logit technique, I find 3 main empirical results. First, intra-Africa...
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This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et...
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In the global recession of 2009, exports declined precipitously in many countries. We illustrate with firm-level data for Belgium and Peru that the decline was very sudden and almost entirely due to lower export sales by existing exporters. After the recession, exports rebounded almost equally...
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Solution (WITS), and selection bias from dropping tariffs when no trade is recorded. I develop a novel interpolation algorithm …
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developing and emerging countries over several years, merged with destination-product specific information on tariffs and non …-tariff measures is not isomorphic to that of tariffs: the pricing-to-market behavior we observe suggests that, while tariffs reduce …, tariffs, exchange rate, price discrimination …
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We study the impact of the Indian trade liberalization of 1991 on development at the district level using satellite nighttime lights per capita as a proxy for development. We find that on average trade liberalization increased nighttime lights per capita but there was considerable heterogeneity...
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Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …
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