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The trade discussions between the U.S. and China are on-going. Not much is known about the shape and nature of a potential agreement, but it seems possible that it would include elements of managed trade. This paper attempts to examine the direct, first-round spillover effects for the rest of...
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This paper evaluates the impact the DR-CAFTA had on the exports of the Dominican Republic to the United States. We estimate a gravity model for the DR exports to the 109 trade partners of the country during 1990-2014 and measure the marginal effects of the 2007 DR-CAFTA ratification. Our...
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Evidence suggests that the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSTA) had almost no effect on earnings and had a small negative effect on manufacturing employment. Theory suggests that a change in trade policy may affect skilled and less-skilled workers differently. The labour market consequences...
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been made.” Trump said he had told the South Koreans, “We’ll either terminate or negotiate. We may terminate.” This set the …
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The traditional developed economies of the Group of Three (G3)-the European Union, Japan and the United States- all face economic slowdown, and acceptance is growing that the Asia-Pacific region will be the world's next engine of economic growth. Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are...
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the trade flow between Brazil and the United States between 2000 and 2014, considering its evolution and analyzing indicators such as export and import tariffs, relative importance of bilateral trade, trade intensity index, concentration index, index of...
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This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...
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To what extent do national borders and national currencies impose costs that segment markets across countries? To answer this question the authors use a dataset with product-level retail prices and wholesale costs for a large grocery chain with stores in the United States and Canada. They...
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, wie sich Angebots-, Nachfrage- und geldpolitische Schocks aus den Vereinigten Staaten auf Deutschland übertragen. Dabei wird ein so genanntes factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) auf einen neu zusammengestellten Datensatz mit mehr als 200...
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trade liberalization, in particular age and gains from free trade, using a dynamic structural general equilibrium model. The … effects of trade liberalization in detail but it requires a completely different estimation strategy, which comes at a cost of ….S. data sets NLSY and CPS, we simulate a hypothetical trade liberalization in metal manufacturing sector (which has been …
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