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Trade Policy as Corporate Welfare : The Case of the U.S. Steel Industry

McGee, Robert W. - 2003

This paper begins with a discussion of what constitutes corporate welfare, then proceeds to apply the corporate welfare concept to the steel industry in the United States. A review is made of the various government supports that the steel industry has enjoyed since 1969. Studies have estimated...

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Trade Policy of a Free Society

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

This paper examines the various arguments that have been put forth in favor of protectionism, from both an accounting and philosophical perspective. The author concludes that arguments against free trade are based on faulty premises, illogical reasoning or incorrect facts. Part 2. This paper was...

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Liberalized trade policy and inequality : evidence from post-Multi-Fibre Arrangement India and some theoretical issues

Kar, Mausumi; Kar, Saibal - 2015

The phased elimination of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has been one of the most compelling trade policy reforms of the early twenty-first century, and has brought in significant changes in the industrial structures of the countries of the global south. The textile and clothing industry is the...

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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

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I've been everywhere (except Mexico) : investor responses to NAFTA's cross-border trucking provisions

Davies, Ronald B.; Liebman, Benjamin H.; Tomlin, Kasaundra - 2015

We investigate the response of US trucking firms to the removal of barriers to crossborder trucking under NAFTA. This was done via a program implemented in 2007, cancelled in 2009, and reinstated in 2011. We find that, unsurprisingly, the program's start resulted in lower stock returns,...

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International trade regulation and job creation : trade policy is not an employment policy and should not be expected to have major effects on overall employment

Winters, Leonard Alan - 2014

position has neither theoretical support nor empirical evidence in its favor. Given that protection may have other - usually …

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Trade protection in India : economics vs. politics?

Gang, Ira N.; Pandey, Mihir - 1996

This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector … compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels of protection. Moreover, the degree of protection should change as the … industries may enjoy a great deal of protection because of political lobbying (...) …

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Are All Trade Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

quota-based. We exploit this extensive heterogeneity in trade protection to examine the well-established theoretical …-based protection, but not tariff-based protection, particularly with respect to integrated and minimill steel producers. Our results …

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Trump's trade war : an Indian perspective

Athukorala, Premachandra - 2020

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Trade Policy and Labor Services : Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021

This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...

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