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THE SUGAR MARKET IN COLOMBIA AND ITS INTERACTIONS WITH THE USA MARKET
López, Leonardo Raffo - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA Y ADMINISTRACIÓN (2011)
Colombia y sus interacciones comerciales con la economía norteamericana. Se evalúan los posibles efectos de un TLC con Estados … Unidos sobre el mercado, al igual que la incidencia de otros factores internos y externos. Se prueba que el impacto de un TLC … entre Colombia y Estados Unidos depende del balancede dos fuerzas contrapuestas: el incremento en la proporción de la cuota …
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Trade and Labor Standards: A Review of the Theory and New Empirical Evidence
Dehejia, Vivek H.; Samy, Yiagadeesen - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2007
Despite its exclusion from the Doha agenda, the issue of trade and labor standards remains an intensely discussed subject among economists, policymakers, international agencies and nongovernmental organizations. In the past few years, both World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Labor...
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Behaviour of Belgian firms in the context of globalisation : lessons from the conference on “International Trade : Threats and Opportunities in a Globalised World”
Dhyne, E.; Dresse, L.; Fuss, C.; Piette, Ch. - In: Economic Review (2011) I, pp. 73-88
The article summarises the main lessons of the Bank’s 2010 conference which focused on international trade and foreign direct investment. The research is based on a microeconomic approach to the behaviour of Belgian firms, with reference to developments in the scientific literature on the...
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Services Policy Reform in the People’s Republic of China: Before and After the Global Financial Crisis
Fan, Ying - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2011
Adverse effects of the global financial crisis on international trade include falling demand, increased trade protectionism, and drying up of trade finance. Much attention has focused on the impact of the crisis on goods trade; however literature on its impact on services trade is limited,...
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Made in the World - Eine Initiative der WTO zur Erneuerung der Außenhandelsstatistik auf Wertschöpfungsbasis
Klein, Martin; Weirowski, Tobias; Kamenev, Dmitry - Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena - 2013
The following article examines the Made-in-the-World initiative of the WTO from different angles. Methodological issues and methods for the conversion of foreign trade statistics on value-added basis are analyzed, primarily - those for the internationalization of the input- output accounts....
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Is Free Trade the End All Be All? The Case of Log Exports
van Kooten, Gerrit Cornelis - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2014
The government of British Columbia imposes restrictions on the export of logs from public and private forestlands, primarily to promote local processing and associated employment benefits. Economists wholeheartedly oppose BC’s export restrictions, arguing that BC’s citizens are worse off as...
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Hidden Protectionism? Evidence from Non-tariff Barriers to Trade in the United States
Grundke, Robert; Moser, Christoph - CESifo - 2014
Are product standards protectionism in disguise? This paper estimates the costs of non-compliance with U.S. product standards, using a new database on U.S. import refusals from 2002 to 2012. We find that import refusals significantly decrease exports to the United States. This trade reducing...
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Hidden Protectionism? Evidence from Non-tariff Barriers to Trade in the United States
Moser, Christoph; Grundke, Robert - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2014
Are product standards protectionism in disguise? This paper estimates the costs of non-compliance with U.S. product standards, using a new database on U.S. import refusals from 2002 to 2012. We find that import refusals significantly decrease exports to the United States. This trade reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105538
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EU Enlargement and the New Goods Margin in Austrian Trade
Dalton, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using the methodology developed in Kehoe and Ruhl (2013), I measure the change in the extensive, or new goods, margin of trade between Austria and the ten new entrants to the European Union in 2004. On average, the new goods account for 42% of the bilateral trade flow after enlargement. A time...
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The New Goods Margin in Japanese-Chinese Trade
Dalton, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper uses the methodology developed in Kehoe and Ruhl (2013) to measure the change in the extensive, or new goods, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of...
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