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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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quotas with protection occuring in response to import surges, but only for organized industries, is simulated and shown to …
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This paper critically and selectively surveys the literature on protection for sale and discusses directions for future research in this area. It suggests that the standard approach needs to be augmented to provide more compelling tests of this model.
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general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry …
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Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …
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An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor …-productivity firms to survive, thereby leading to a sub-optimal allocation of resources. This paper explores the impact of tariffs on the … allocation of capital using administrative data from South Africa. We find that tariffs are highly correlated with capital …
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