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Reassessing Effective Protection Rates in a Trade in Tasks Perspective : Evolution of Trade Policy in 'Factory Asia'

Escaith, Hubert; Diakantoni, Antonia - 2012

With international trade moving from "trade in (final) goods" to "trade in tasks", effective protection rates (EPRs) are back to the stage. Input-output matrices are used in this paper to monitor the production structure of 10 Asian-Pacific countries between 1995 and 2005, and to calculate...

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French Oil Protectionism and the International Political Economy of Rent Seeking

Brault, Julien - 2015

Quantitative protectionism, more precisely import substituting industrialization through quantitative trade … and rent capture. One of the most ambitious implementations of import substitution, French oil protectionism created … case of French oil, quantitative protectionism was macroeconomically efficient in the long run, but created medium term …

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A simple trade policy perspective on capital controls

Schuknecht, Ludger - 1998 - Manuscript Date: October 1998

This note discusses capital controls using insights from the trade policy literature. It highlights some key issues that have been neglected in the current international debate on capital controls. Capital is tradable in the same way as many goods and services are. As a result, much of the...

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If the US-China trade war is here to stay, what are the risks and opportunities for other GVC economies outside the war zone?

Witada Anukoonwattaka; Romao, Pedro; Lobo, Richard S. - 2021

Over the last three years, trade tensions between the United States (US) and China have transformed a fairly open bilateral trading environment into a rather protectionist one. The new administration of the United States has maintained most of the bilateral tariffs and non-tariff barriers put in...

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