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The macroeconomic consequences of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty
Boer, Lukas; Rieth, Malte - 2024
We estimate the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty in the United States, combining theory-consistent and narrative sign restrictions on Bayesian SVARs. We find mostly adverse consequences of protectionism. Tariff shocks are more important than trade policy...
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Import liberalization as export destruction? : evidence from the United States
Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2022
How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US export growth following the permanent normalization of...
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The impact of Chinese technical barriers to trade on its manufacturing imports
Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2018
its tariffs on manufacturing imports. However, the proliferation of non-tariff measures (NTMs) imposed by China has made … States. This paper investigates the impact of Chinese TBTs and tariffs on the imports of manufacturing products at the 6 …
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Import processing and trade costs
Carballo, Jeronimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021
Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing...
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Import processing and trade costs
Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2023
We estimate import processing costs based on the time it takes to import. Our theory extends existing time-cost measures to account for uncertainty in import processing. We use detailed, highly disaggregated data on import processing dates and import values to provide evidence for our theory and...
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Standard, Reputation and Trade : Evidence from US Horticultural Imports Refusals
Jouanjean, Marie Agnes - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of food safety standards promulgated by governments or imposed by buyers from the private sector on the capacity of developing countries to access developed countries' markets for high value agricultural and food products. I offer an analysis that disentangles...
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What are the price effects of trade? : evidence from the U.S. and implications for quantitative trade models
Jaravel, Xavier; Sager, Erick - 2019
This paper finds that U.S. consumer prices fell substantially due to increased trade with China. With comprehensive price micro-data and two complementary identification strategies, we estimate that a 1pp increase in import penetration from China causes a 1.91% decline in consumer prices. This...
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Mind the measure : on the effects of antidumping investigations in Egypt
Hazem, Nada; Zaki, Chahir - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 1-14
This paper examines the impact of the antidumping measures initiated by the Government of Egypt on imports during the … the value, the volume and the price of imports. Second, it differentiates between the investigation, destruction and …, there is an investigation effect since imports are likely to decrease during the investigation review period and before the …
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Small is beautiful and important : economies and firms trading in digital services
Kerner, Riina; Kitsing, Meelis - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 1, pp. 93-111
Although many firms operate on global digital platforms, small countries and firms also play an essential role at the national level, especially during crises and the slowdown in globalization. This research investigates trade patterns in digital services at the country and firm level and...
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Unilateral carbon pricing and heterogeneous firms
Sogalla, Robin - 2023
Several empirical studies document the relevance of firm heterogeneity to assess the effect of trade and environmental policy. This paper develops a multi-country and -sector general equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous firms and analyzes the effect of domestic carbon pricing as well as...
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