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protectionism under the guise of free trade. For this, the paper proposes an ideal-type free trade agreement benchmark model based … classical liberal ideal of totally free trade and have a high content of back door protectionism suitable to raise trade …
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protectionism and promoting global trade and investment. Since then, 22 G20 reports and 24 WTO-wide reports have been published. The …
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global trading system has dominated both domestic demand management and industrialization from within.ʺ This paper assesses …
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stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology - be accelerated? Lewis (1954 …) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of industrialization is limited by the rate of capital formation which in turn is … an open economy increases the rate of capital formation and speeds up the pace of industrialization relative to a closed …
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global trading system has dominated both domestic demand management and industrialization "from within." This paper assesses …
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The majority of African countries implemented import liberalisation in the 1990s. This paper explores factors that may explain the pattern of protection and of tariff reform. We consider political economy explanations, motivated specifically by the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model of protection...
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In international relations, short-run incentives for non-cooperation often dominate. Yet, (external) institutions for enforcing cooperation are hampered by national sovereignty, supposedly strengthening the role of selfenforcing mechanisms. This paper examines their scope with a focus on...
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We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s antidumping regime, considering both the characteristics of target countries subject to antidumping duties and industry-specific factors for sectors receiving protection. Our results are broadly consistent with the recent theoretical...
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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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