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A new measure of aggregate trade restrictions: Cyclical drivers and macro effects
Estefania-Flores, Julia; Furceri, Davide; Ahmed Hannan, … - 2023
This paper presents a new measure of aggregate trade restrictions (MATR) using data from the International Monetary Fund's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is strongly correlated with existing measures of trade restrictiveness but is more comprehensive in...
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - 2004
general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325564
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Who gains from trade protection in Ghana: A household-level analysis?
Ackah, Charles; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2007
-section data. This method has rarely been used in poverty analysis. The results suggest that higher tariffs are associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319078
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Non-tariff barriers in the selected CIS countries
Taran, Sviltana - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to measure and analyse how intensively CIS countries apply nontariff barriers (NTBs) to restrict foreign trade in regard to certain products and total trade. Five CIS countries were selected for this analysis, in particular Ukraine, Russian Federation, Moldova,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430808
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Trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers to Indo-Pak trade
Taneja, Nisha - 2007
This paper aims to identify the bilateral trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers between India and Pakistan. The study shows that there is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach, the study finds that the export potential from India to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807606
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Is there a short-run case for protectionism? Trade policy and the business cycle
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2011
. Protectionism can have many different faces. It can come in the form of Buy-American clauses of stimulus packages, as an increase in … trade barriers or tariffs, or as an increase in export subsidies. In this paper, we show that none of these measures … the short run, they are less effective than general government spending impulses. Raising tariffs or trade barriers even …
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Policy Reversals, Lobby Groups and Economic Distortions
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2005
inputs to a lot of products. Since the tariffs on the inputs are higher than the outputs, the cost of production has remained …
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Global Impact of a Protectionist U.S. Trade Policy
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Steininger, Marina; Yalcin, Erdal - 2017
When President Trump came into office the US administration launched a detailed analysis of American trade relations. It aimed to identify "unfair trade practices" that are supposedly increasingly being used by other countries, and that are economically damaging to America. This study simulates...
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Port privatization in an international oligopoly
Matsushima, Noriaki; Takauchi, Kazuhiro - 2013
We investigate how port privatization affects port charges, firm profits, and welfare. Our model consists of an international duopoly with two ports and two markets. When the unit transport cost is large, privatization of ports decreases the prices for port usage, although neither government has...
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Antidumping as strategic trade policy under asymmetric information
Matschke, Xenia; Schöttner, Anja - 2009
This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where the foreign firm's cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on...
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