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Endogenous trade restrictions and exporters' pricing behaviour
Rovegno, Laura - 2013
, unlike other import tariffs, AD duties are not absorbed by exporters. The results on firms' average markups also suggest that …
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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation
Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001
In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...
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Corruption in customs
Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Raballand, … - 2021
. Manipulation of assignment of import declarations to inspectors is identified by measuring deviations from random assignment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797667
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The Politics of Tariff Cooperation in the Presence of Trade Costs
Susa, Taiki - 2019
This study explores tariff cooperation under a representative democracy, comparing national welfare realized in three trading regimes: most favored nation (MFN), customs union (CU), and free trade agreement (FTA). Two points are addressed: Why have FTAs increased in recent decades when...
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Trade policy and the household distribution of income
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004
We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335217
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Trade policy substitution : theory and evidence
Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - In: Review of world economics 155 (2019) 4, pp. 755-783
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Trade policy substitution : theory and evidence
Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - 2014
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The sources of protectionist drift in representative democracies
Laussel, Didier; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2001
We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...
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Chapter 8. The Design of Trade Agreements
Bagwell, K.; Staiger, R.W. - 2016
What does economics have to say about the design of international trade agreements? We review a literature on this question, providing detailed coverage on three key design features of the GATT/WTO: reciprocity, nondiscrimination as embodied in the MFN principle, and tariff bindings and binding...
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(Trade) war and peace : how to impose international trade sanctions
Souza, Gustavo Moreira de; Hu, Naiyuan; Li, Haishi; … - 2022
model of international trade with input-output connections. Sanctioning countries simultaneously choose import tariffs to … Russian welfare, an embargo on Russia's mining and energy products - with tariffs above 50% on other products - is the most …
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