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Growth, Real Exchange Rates and Trade Protectionism Since the Financial Crisis
Georgiadis, Georgios - 2013
whether the historically well-documented relationship between growth, real exchange rates and trade protectionism has broken … measures. We find that the specter of protectionism has not been banished: Countries continue to pursue more trade … differences in the recourse to trade protectionism across countries: trade policies of G20 advanced economies respond more …
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Market Access in Global and Regional Trade
de Sousa, José - 2012
This paper develops a method to measure difficulties in market access over a large set of countries (both developing and developed) and industries, during the period 1980-2006. We use a micro-founded heterogeneous-consumers model to estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional...
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Evolution in the use of antidumping mechanism after Uruguay round
Firme, Vinícius de Azevedo Couto; Vasconcelos, Claudio … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 3, pp. 321-342
This paper analyzed how the main economies have used the antidumping measures (AD) after the Uruguay round, between 1995 and 2012. Therefore, some techniques were employed in order to reveal the main AD users and the trend, of using this instrument, associated to each one of them. We also tested...
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Open Economies Work Better! Did Africa's Protectionist Policies Cause its Marginalization in World Trade?
Ng, Francis; Yeats, Alexander J. - 2008
Sub-Saharan Africa's declining importance in global trade is primarily due to its inability to remain competitive in international markets. If Africa merely retained its 1962-1964 shares for major products its exports would now be 75% ($11 billion) higher. External protection against Africa has...
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Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Export Growth : When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism
Handley, Kyle; Kamal, Fariha; Monarch, Ryan - 2020
We examine the impacts of the 2018-2019 U.S. import tariff increases on U.S. export growth through the lens of supply chain linkages. Using 2016 confidential firm-trade linked data, we document the implied incidence and scope of new import tariffs. Firms that eventually faced tariff increases on...
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Trade in value added : concepts, estimation and analysis
Javorsek, Marko; Camacho, Ignacio - 2015
This working paper introduces the concept of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) and presents an initial analysis of TiVA for selected regional ESCAP economies. The paper introduces Global Value Chains (GVCs) and issues for the measurement of trade statistics due to proliferation of GVCs. It further...
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International trade and unemployment : a quantitative framework ; conference paper
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2013
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
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How international trade is affected by the financial crisis : the gravity trade equation
Broll, Udo; Jauer, Julia - 2014
The study examines the effect of financial crises on international trade with a gravity approach and a large data set covering almost 70 importing and 200 exporting countries from 1950 to 2009. Thus it is possible to put the "Great Trade Collapse" witnessed during the financial crisis 2008/2009,...
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Global Value Chains : benefiting the domestic economy?
Kummritz, Victor - 2015
Global Value Chains (GVCs) have become a central topic in trade and development policy but little is known about their actual impact on economic performance because data availability has been limited. Using a new unique set of Inter- Country Input-Output tables with extensive country coverage, I...
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Reduced 'Border Effects', FTAs and International Trade
Franco, Sebastian - 2018
This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects accounts for the bulk of the increase in international...
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