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This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using … tariffs at different stages of the production chain for a broad set of countries and industries. Our results suggest that … tariffs have significant effects on economic outcomes, including on countries and sectors not directly targeted. We find that …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the current trade conflict on developing Asia using the Asian Development Bank's Multiregional Input - Output Table (MRIOT), allowing us to calculate the impact on individual countries and on sectors within countries. The analysis estimates the direct impact on...
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In this paper, we investigate the scale of the drop in American imports after it imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese …
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Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the collapse of the gold standard? Using recent advances in the estimation of gravity equations, I examine the partial and general equilibrium effects of bilateral distance,...
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bias or border effect rather than by using other indicators such as the openness rate or the existence of tariffs and non …
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We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect components (general equilibrium effects). Furthermore,...
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The studies summarised in this paper focus on the economic implications of euro area firms’ participation in global value chains (GVCs). They show how, and to what extent, a large set of economic variables and inter-linkages have been affected by international production sharing. The core...
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We quantify the economic impact of a potential secession of Catalonia from Spain. Using a novel dataset of trade flows between 17 Spanish sub-national regions and 142 countries, we estimate effects of different levels of borders on trade flows and uncover heterogeneity in country-to-country,...
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tariffs on the volume and composition of trade. We find that distance, common language, common border and regional trade … policies based on tariffs on imported goods not only generate negative spillovers to trading partners by reducing their exports …, but they are also likely to reduce exports of countries that impose the tariffs, in particular in industries that rely …
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further indicate that the market of health products is dominated by a small number of developed countries. Looking at tariffs … overall level of tariffs is low, but far from being zero, especially in the last three country groups. Finally, studying the … tariffs on health products in preferential trade agreements between developing countries, the results show that the tariff …
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