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Bureaucrats or politicians? Political parties and antidumping in the US
Aquilante, Tommaso - 2016
Antidumping (AD) is the most widely used contingent protection measure. In the United States, key decisions on AD are delegated to the International Trade Commission (ITC), an independent agency composed of six non-elected commissioners. Using a newly collected dataset, I study the determinants...
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The sources and magnitudes of Switzerland's gains from trade
Hepenstrick, Christian - 2011
tool to quantify the magnitudes of Switzerland's gains from trade. I find that the importance of single trading partners … for Switzerland's welfare is surprisingly small. The reason are reallocation effects - if trade between Switzerland and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316937
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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects: Potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014
Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
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Switzerland's gains from trade with Europe
Hepenstrick, Christian - In: Aussenwirtschaft 67 (2016) 3, pp. 25-42
In this paper I look at the size of Switzerland's gains from trade through the lens of the workhorse model of modern … trade theory. The model finds that most of Switzerland's gains from trade originate from the EU and that realistic changes …
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The Sources and Magnitudes of Switzerland’s Gains from Trade
Hepenstrick, Christian - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 152 (2016) 1, pp. 1-21
to quantify Switzerland's gains from trade. I find that individual trading partners matter surprisingly little for … Switzerland's welfare because of reallocation effects: if trade between Switzerland and some partner country is inhibited, other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933337
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Die Beziehungen der Europäischen Union mit der Schweiz: Die Volksabstimmung in der Schweiz am 27. September 2020
Busch, Berthold - 2020
Die wirtschaftlichen und institutionellen Beziehungen zwischen der Schweiz und der EU sind in über 100 verschiedenen … verlieren, wenn die Volksabstimmung am 27. September 2020 in der Schweiz die Begrenzungsinitiative annimmt. Dann wäre die … Schweiz in letzter Konsequenz gezwungen, das Abkommen über die Personenfreizügigkeit mit der EU zu kündigen. Wegen der …
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ASEAN’s Free Trade Agreements with the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
Estrada, Gemma; Park, Donghyun; Park, Innwon; Park, Soonchan - 2011
Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants—the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the … quantitatively assess the different permutations of ASEAN’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Big Three (e.g., ASEAN–PRC, ASEAN–Japan …
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International Public Procurement Agreements - Problems of Implemetations in Switzerland
Frey, René L.; Kilchenmann, Christoph; Krautter, Nicolai - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 3, pp. 31-37
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Posts as Trade Facilitators
Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Volpe Martincus, … - 2016
In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involves both a streamlining of export procedures and provision of intermediation services to investigate how firms' react to changing trade costs and whether and how these firms learn. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that...
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Endogenous Border Times
Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2016
We examine transaction-level Peruvian import data to show that firms are subject to significant costs of port-of-entry delays. At the transaction level, we observe the time it takes a shipment to clear each step in the entry process. Our theory shows conditions under which observed entry times...
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