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The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports, (ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticities, and (iii) decrease with the variance of imports. We find US import policy during...
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This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the location of firms, innovation and environmental policy. Besides the standard effect of reducing trade and production of dirty goods, green tariffs discourage firms from relocating to...
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- erature to estimate the role of GATT/WTO and the Generalized System of Preferences for trade. We use a gravity model and apply … analysis we find a significant positive effect of WTO membership on bilateral trade. Referring to other multi- lateral …
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the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of …
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telecommunications industry. We analyse in particular the role of the WTO agreement in furthering liberalization around the world, and … NAFTA. The WTO agreement comes out of the analysis quite well. It is an important instrument of protecting and safeguarding … Telekommunikation. Speziell fragen wir nach dem Beitrag des WTO-Abkommens zur weltweiten Liberalisierung und nach dem Schutz, den es …
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Geistige Eigentumsrechte gewinnen in Zuge der Globalisierung eine immer grössere Bedeutung. Neue Produktionstechniken, schnellere Kommunikationswege und nicht zuletzt die rasante Entwicklung der neuen Medien erleichtern zunehmend Imitationen, Kopien und Piraterie. Im Jahre 1995 wurde mit der...
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Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors argue that border measures both import restrictive measures and … challenged in the WTO. Given the prospect of foreseeable conflicts with WTO rules, the authors suggest that key WTO members … are imposed in a manner broadly consistent with core WTO principles even if a technical violation of WTO law could occur …
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Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors argue that border measures—both import restrictive measures and … challenged in the WTO. Given the prospect of foreseeable conflicts with WTO rules, the authors suggest that key WTO members … are imposed in a manner broadly consistent with core WTO principles even if a technical violation of WTO law could occur …
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Applied general and partial equilibrium models are widely used tools for ex ante analysis of trade policy changes. However, simulation results seem to exhibit significant variation across publications, and the often criticised ‘black box’ character of applied trade models makes meaningful...
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effects of these SPS measures. WTO Notifications under the SPS Agreement are utilized in this contribution for measuring trade … impacts of sanitary and phytosanitary trade barriers. We explain the WTO data base on SPS notifications. Then, a gravitation …
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