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Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M.; Manchin, Miriam - 2005
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate intoworsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization.We examine the actual scope for preference erosion,...
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The dark side of the generalized system of preferences
Herz, Bernhard; Wagner, Marco - 2010
The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was established to promote the exports of low-income countries to … complex and the effects of GSP have been found to be controversial. While previous studies solely analyzed preferential … the overall and dynamic effects common to the various GSP schemes in order to provide generalized recommendations for …
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Do unilateral trade preferences help export diversification? : an investigation of the impact of European unilateral trade preferences on the extensive and intensive margin of trad...
Gamberoni, Elisa - 2007
(GSP) for least developing countries did not change the beneficiaries' export pattern, while the traditional GSP and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872157
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Missing tariffs
Teti, Feodora - 2023
Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs every year and missing data are more prevalent for...
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Offshoring, Extent of the Shadow Economy and Productivity Effects. Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms
Amendolagine, Vito - 2011
We examine whether offshoring firms outperform purely domestic firms – in terms of efficiency, innovativeness and skill composition – in the peculiar context of Italy, the G7 country with the largest shadow-economy share. We posit that manufacturing firms – to counter emerging economies'...
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When is Trade Protection Good for Growth?
Minier, Jenny; Unel, Bulent - 2021
The empirical relationship between trade protection and economic growth is surprisingly fragile, as shown in a number of other papers. After demonstrating this empirical sensitivity, we address one possible explanation for these findings: that the relationship is nonlinear. Following the...
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The Pro-Trade Bias of Offshoring
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab; Chau, Nancy; … - 2021
Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide, where a typical scene following the supply chain involves developing countries importing finished products from developed countries that contain developing country labor...
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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864551
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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas - 2019
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First, better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898431
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Managing Trade : Evidence From China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both production efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First, better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917171