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This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using … tariffs at different stages of the production chain for a broad set of countries and industries. Our results suggest that … tariffs have significant effects on economic outcomes, including on countries and sectors not directly targeted. We find that …
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bilateral applied tariffs for each product category for the universe of available country pairs over the 2001 to 2016 period. We …
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commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs- what is also known as tariffs … equivalent to a level of tariffs between 1.7 and 8.7 percentage points. …
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Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the collapse of the gold standard? Using recent advances in the estimation of gravity equations, I examine the partial and general equilibrium effects of bilateral distance,...
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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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data on tariffs and trade covering 130 countries. We show that regionalism has delivered limited effective liberalization …
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We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect components (general equilibrium effects). Furthermore,...
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Economy-wide shocks affect demand, supply, and intermediary sectors simultaneously. We dissect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on international trade by combining information from customs records, smartphone-based human mobility, and container ship port calls. We find that local disruptions...
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tariffs on the volume and composition of trade. We find that distance, common language, common border and regional trade … policies based on tariffs on imported goods not only generate negative spillovers to trading partners by reducing their exports …, but they are also likely to reduce exports of countries that impose the tariffs, in particular in industries that rely …
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further indicate that the market of health products is dominated by a small number of developed countries. Looking at tariffs … overall level of tariffs is low, but far from being zero, especially in the last three country groups. Finally, studying the … tariffs on health products in preferential trade agreements between developing countries, the results show that the tariff …
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