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Do free trade agreements promote sneaky protectionism? : a classical liberal perspective
Wandel, Jürgen - In: International journal of management and economics 55 (2019) 3, pp. 185-200
protectionism under the guise of free trade. For this, the paper proposes an ideal-type free trade agreement benchmark model based … classical liberal ideal of totally free trade and have a high content of back door protectionism suitable to raise trade …
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Lessons learned and challenges ahead for the WTO Trade Monitoring exercise
Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter; Diakantoni, Antonia - 2020 - Manuscript date: 10 December 2019
protectionism and promoting global trade and investment. Since then, 22 G20 reports and 24 WTO-wide reports have been published. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175231
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Trade and financial market reforms in ASEAN : putting the cart before the horse?
James, William E. - In: ASEAN economic bulletin 14 (1998) 3, pp. 224-237
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001240261
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The discrete charm of the Washington Consensus
Kregel, Jan A. (contributor) - 2008
global trading system has dominated both domestic demand management and industrialization from within.ʺ This paper assesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727287
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The quantitative importance of openness in development
Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2013
stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology - be accelerated? Lewis (1954 …) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of industrialization is limited by the rate of capital formation which in turn is … an open economy increases the rate of capital formation and speeds up the pace of industrialization relative to a closed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189831
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The Discrete Charm of the Washington Consensus
Kregel, Jan A. - 2008
global trading system has dominated both domestic demand management and industrialization "from within." This paper assesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218436
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African trade policy in the 1990s : political economy or technocratic reforms?
Jones, Chris (contributor); Morrissey, Oliver (contributor);  … - 2008
The majority of African countries implemented import liberalisation in the 1990s. This paper explores factors that may explain the pattern of protection and of tariff reform. We consider political economy explanations, motivated specifically by the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model of protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728341
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(When) does tit-for-tat diplomacy in trade policy pay off?
Dluhosch, Barbara; Horgos, Daniel - 2012
In international relations, short-run incentives for non-cooperation often dominate. Yet, (external) institutions for enforcing cooperation are hampered by national sovereignty, supposedly strengthening the role of selfenforcing mechanisms. This paper examines their scope with a focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374353
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Political influence in a new antidumping regime : evidence from Mexico
Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - 2004
We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s antidumping regime, considering both the characteristics of target countries subject to antidumping duties and industry-specific factors for sectors receiving protection. Our results are broadly consistent with the recent theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334852
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The cost of EU trade protection in textiles and clothing
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472459