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This paper addresses the issue of whether Donald Trump should impose a 35% tariff on the importation of certain goods from China and Mexico, and presumably other countries. Applying utilitarian ethics leads to the conclusion that the tariff should not be imposed. The same result is obtained by...
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Can anti-dumping tariffs increase employment? We compile data on all antidumping (AD) investigations in Brazil matching … upstream ones are not affected. To quantify the aggregate effect of these tariffs, we build a model with international trade ….06%, but they decreased welfare by 2.4%. Using tariffs, the government can increase employment by as much as 2.8%. …
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principle, tariffs could be an effective deterrent for weak protections for intellectual property. Moreover, weakening … enforcement may be a strong deterrent for raising tariffs. These results combined indicate that there is scope for international …
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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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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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This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize on the production of subsets of the global value chain. In the open economy equilibrium, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...
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We estimate the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty in the United States, combining …
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, while the threat of protectionism also involves more direct tariffs against EU exports to the US. We apply a measurement …
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Utilizing firm-level data covering the 2010-2015 period, this study documents the frequency and characteristics of multi-product firms in Vietnamese manufacturing. Our major findings are as follows. First, multi-product firms are larger, more capital-intensive, more productive, and are more...
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Utilizing firm-level data during 2010–2015, we examine the frequency and characteristics of multi-product firms in Vietnamese manufacturing. Our major findings are as follows. First, multi-product firms are larger, more capital-intensive, more productive, and are more likely to export. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107289