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Can smart policies reconcile Singapore's green economy with sand imports from Southeast Asia?

Hübler, Michael; Pothen, Frank - 2018

challenge, this article focuses on sand exports from developing countries in Southeast Asian to Singapore as a prominent example … extraction to a large extent, while the economic costs are small for Singapore and slightly positive for the Southeast Asian sand … policy can help sustainably balance Singapore's economic growth with Southeast Asia's economic development. …

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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Trade Policy

Giordani, Paolo - 2015

This paper studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large food price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international...

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Examination of the Singapore Shift in Japan's Foreign Direct Investment in Services in ASEAN

Hamanaka, Shintaro - 2011

contrast, Japan's FDI in the services sectors in ASEAN is growing rapidly. The recent phenomenon of the Singapore Shift in … establish a commercial presence in Singapore, which they expect to be the hub of Southeast Asia, thereby enabling them to supply … services to the entire ASEAN region. The magnitude of the Singapore Shift varies for every services sub-sector. By comparing …

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Examination of the Singapore shift in Japan's foreign direct investment in services in ASEAN

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2011

contrast, Japan's FDI in the services sectors in ASEAN has been growing rapidly. The recent phenomenon of the Singapore Shift … establish a commercial presence in Singapore, which they expect to be the "hub" of Southeast Asia, thereby enabling them to … supply services to the entire ASEAN region. The magnitude of the Singapore Shift varies for every services sub-sector. By …

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Trade policy along the global value chain : a rationale for the existence of deep trade agreements

Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2022

This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize in the production of sub-stages of the global value chain. In the open economy, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...

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Trade policy implications of a changing world : tariffs and import market power

Jakubik, Adam; Keck, Alexander; Piermartini, Roberta - 2022 - Manuscript date: 3 November 2022

Economic theory suggests that countries' tariff commitments in trade agreements reflect their import market power at the time of negotiations. However, as countries grow, their market power in different sectors can change in unforeseen ways and their commitments may no longer reflect changed...

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Chapter 27 The Political Economy of Economic Sanctions

Kaempfer, William H.; Lowenberg, Anton D. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 867-911). 2007

International economic sanctions have become increasingly important as alternatives to military conflict since the end of the Cold War. This chapter surveys various approaches to the study of economic sanctions in both the economics and international relations literatures. Sanctions may be...

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Trade policy uncertainty and medical innovation : evidence from developing nations

Shabbir, Muhammad Nadir; Liyong, Wang; Muhammad Usman Arshad - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 9, pp. 1-23

This study explores the influence of trade policy uncertainty on medical innovation investment in developing nations from 1980 to 2020, with a focus on the period of COVID-19. We used exogenous and heterogeneous exposure to trade-policy-uncertainty resolutions from developing countries' trade...

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Reduced time at customs through implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) would be a significant boost to intra-African trade for AfCFTA countries

De Melo, Jaime; Sorgho, Zakaria; Wagner, Laurent - 2023

All WTO members participate in the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), a rules-based bottom-up approach built on monitorable provisions (e.g. the publication of information, advance rulings, appeal or review of decisions, transparency, and border agency cooperation) aimed at reducing time in...

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Trade, innovation and optimal patent protection

Hémous, David; Lepot, Simon; Sampson, Thomas; … - 2023

This paper provides a first comprehensive quantitative analysis of optimal patent policy in the global economy. We introduce a new framework, which combines trade and growth theory into a tractable tool for quantitative research. Our application delivers three main results. First, the potential...

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