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The economics of trade liberalization : Charles S. Peirce and the Spanish Treaty of 1884
Wible, James R.; Hoover, Kevin D. - 2017
Spain concerning import tariffs on Cuban and Puerto Rican sugar. The debate is reconstructed and related carefully both to …
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Icebergs versus tariffs : a quantitative perspective on the gains from trade ; conference paper
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - 2013
We derive a simple equation for the welfare gains from trade when tariffs are liberalized or iceberg trade costs fall … the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare (2012) to encompass revenue-generating import tariffs. Our formula … countries with relatively high status quo tariffs, our formula predicts 30-60\% larger gains from trade than the icebergs only …
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The Effect of the Uruguay Round on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade
Buono, Ines - 2010
Do tariffs inhibit trade flows by limiting the entry of exporting firms ('extensive margin') or by restricting the … tariffs promoted during the 1990s by the Uruguay Round multilateral trade agreement affected the trade margins of French firms …-varying tariffs as a measure of variable trade costs. Our results show that the number of firms exporting in a given sector to a given …
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Competing Liberalizations : Tariffs and Trade in the 21st Century
Bureau, Jean-Christophe - 2016
data on tariffs and trade covering 130 countries. We show that regionalism has delivered limited effective liberalization …
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India - Pakistan trade : textiles and clothing
Taneja, Nisha; Ray, Saon; Pande, Devyani - 2016
higher tariffs by way of being in India's sensitive list are much higher than that for Pakistan. Bilateral trade is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508013
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Firms in international trade
Díez, Federico J.; Mora, Jesse; Spearot, Alan C. - 2016 - This version: December 2016
Firms play a critical role in the global economy. In this paper, we survey the behavior of firms in the international economy, both in theory and in the data. We first summarize the key empirical facts that motivate the study of firms in trade. Then, we detail recent theoretical developments on...
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Putting Canada in the penalty box : trade and welfare effects of eliminating NAFTA
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Bruno, John P. - 2019
Three years ago, very few economists would have imagined that one of the newest and fastest growing research areas in international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major countries' economic integration agreements (EIAs)....
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The micro-economics of export supply : firm-level evidence from Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso - 2019
This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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The new goods margin in Japanese–Chinese trade
Dalton, John T. - In: Japan and the World Economy 31 (2014) C, pp. 8-13
This paper uses the methodology developed in Kehoe and Ruhl (2013) to measure the change in the extensive, or new goods, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of...
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Chapter 1. Heterogeneous Firms and Trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 1-54). 2014
This chapter reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters,...
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