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Trade Policy and Global Sourcing : An Efficiency Rationale for Tariff Escalation
Antràs, Pol; Fort, Teresa C.; Gutierrez, Agustin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Import tariffs tend to be higher for final goods than for inputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as tariff …-maximizing tariffs are uniform across sectors. We show that tariff escalation can be rationalized on efficiency grounds in the presence … up the chain for final-good tariffs, input tariffs may drive final-good producers to relocate abroad, mitigating their …
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US trade policy and the US dollar
Khalil, Makram; Strobel, Felix - 2021
that offsetting effects on the newly imposed tariffs were substantial. …
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Strategic behavior in the international burley tabacco market
Chambers, Orlando D.; Reed, Michael R.; Snell, William M. - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 22 (2000) 2, pp. 139-148
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The effect of the 2017 U.S. tax reform on U.S. acquisitions of foreign firms
Amberger, Harald; Robinson, Leslie - 2020
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 marked a significant change in U.S. domestic and international tax policy, altering incentives for U.S. firms to own foreign assets. We examine the initial response of U.S. firms’ foreign acquisition patterns to the TCJA’s key reform provisions. We...
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The welfare cost of imperfect competition and distortionary taxation
Jonsson, Magnus - 2004
The welfare cost of imperfect competition in the product and labor market as well as distortionary taxation is quantified in a dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized to fit the U.S. economy. We find that the welfare cost of imperfect competition in the product market is 35.74 percent...
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Market Size and Trade in Medical Services
Dingel, Jonathan I.; Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Lozinski, Maya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We measure the importance of increasing returns to scale and trade in medical services. Using Medicare claims data, we document that "imported" medical care -- services produced by a medical provider in a different region -- constitute about one-fifth of US healthcare consumption. Larger regions...
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Market Size and Trade in Medical Services
Dingel, Jonathan I.; Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Lozinski, Maya; … - 2023
We measure the importance of increasing returns to scale and trade in medical services. Using Medicare claims data, we document that “imported” medical care—services produced by a medical provider in a different region—constitute about one-fifth of US healthcare consumption. Larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358571
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Swiss goods exports and the Sino-US trade war: Conflicting transmission mechanisms
Evenett, Simon J. - In: Aussenwirtschaft 70 (2019) 1, pp. 91-110
This paper identifies various channels through which the Sino-US trade war and the January 2020 truce affect Swiss goods exports. As a third party to this bilateral trade war, Switzerland's goods exports were not targeted directly. Nevertheless, Swiss goods exports were implicated and evidence...
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Preferences, rent destruction and multilateral liberalisation : the building block effect of CUSFTA
Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - 2012
If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can...
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The importance of special safeguard tariffs (SSG) for Brazilian sugar exports : working paper submitted to the 2015 ERSA Congress
Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Burnquist, Heloisa Lee; … - 2015
an increase in Brazilian sugar exports in the absence of SSG tariffs was calculated and also the overall impact on … raw sugar in EU and 30% for white sugar in US in years 1999 and 2002, which the additional tariffs were highest. In period … tariffs applied by EU were always higher than those applied by US. We estimated that the impact of the value of sugar that was …
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