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primaries, the differences to current politics will not be that big in some areas. Particularly when it comes to free trade …
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This article is about protectionism. It is divided into four parts. Part 1 reviews the philosophy of protectionism, and … producers at the expense of the general public. Part 2 examines the cost of protectionism, both monetary and nonmonetary, and … concludes that protectionism results in a deadweight loss to the economy. Part 3 examines antidumping in theory and practice and …
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This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties … subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …
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This paper develops a two-country model of international trade in which citizens who are heterogeneous with respect to … income and trade taxes in a unified international-trade framework, we uncover the interplay between majority voting over … these two instruments at the domestic level and strategic interdependencies between countries' trade policies. Our main …
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trading regimes: most favored nation (MFN), customs union (CU), and free trade agreement (FTA). Two points are addressed: Why … far away? We build a model that examines the effect of trade costs and how tariff policy is determined in a representative … democracy. We find that when the countries' income distribution is largely skewed, an FTA is more beneficial due to trade costs …
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legislators were not important in the process. Predictions of neo-classical trade models regarding the attitudes of various groups …Utilizing a political economy approach towards trade policy formulation, we examine the case of how the U.S. House … deduce the rationale behind these factors. We find that the U.S. trade policies towards China represent a balanced …
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This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties … subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …
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trade agreements (FTAs)? This paper seeks to answer this question by focusing on the domestic politics in Japan over the … segment of society than is predicted by trade theorems. We show that a broader protectionist coalition can emerge through …
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Economic sanctions have become an increasingly popular method of punishing nations that do not behave according to international standards. But sometimes sanctions are imposed on allies and trading partners as well. The United States currently imposes sanctions on 90 countries, including Canada...
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trade in services, under WTO GATS. As international trade is a domain of multilateral and intergovernmental diplomatic …'s Telecom market is divided into two (2) main technologies i.e., CDMA (US) and GSM (European) technologies respectively. Further … force the market into different directions of technology-choices. Here, Pakistan has earlier tried to liberalize some …
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