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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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International Trade: Commercial policy
Neary, J. Peter - 2001
Following a brief historical introduction and a discussion of different types of commercial policy, this paper reviews the arguments for and against trade protection. In the bench-mark case of a competitive, small, open economy, free trade maximizes aggregate national welfare, although some...
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Equity and International Trade
Francois, Joseph Francis; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2008
We develop a generalized approach to the treatment of household inequality aspects of social welfare in general equilibrium models of trade. We follow a dual approach, highlighting how general equilibrium distributional aspects of social welfare related to import protection may be examined...
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Endogenous Protection in General Equilibrium: estimating political weights in the EU
Francois, Joseph Francis; Nelson, Douglas; … - 2008
We examine the political economy underpinnings of import protection in general equilibrium. Starting from a dual theoretical representation of production, trade, and consumption, we map a general representation of the real economy to underlying political processes aka the political support...
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Braucht Europa eine neue Industriepolitik?
Bletschacher, Georg; Klodt, Henning - 1991
. Keine dieser beiden Theorien bietet jedoch die Grundlage für einen neuen Protektionismus. Das Informationsproblem, das sich …
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Die Handelspolitik der EG nach 1992: Die "Integrationsdividende" in Gefahr
Langhammer, Rolf J. - 1993
Die Handelspolitik der Gemeinschaft ist im Jahre Eins des Binnenmarktes deutlich ins Schlingern geraten. Drei Faktoren haben dazu beigetragen. Erstens mußten "Altlasten" aus der Vor-Binnenmarktzeit in Gestalt unterschiedlicher nationaler Handelspolitiken vereinheitlicht werden, um einen völlig...
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Protektion passé?
Hasse, Rolf H. - 2002
ausgegangen: (1) Protektionismus ist ein integraler Bestandteil der internationalen Arbeitsteilung. (2) Die internationale …) Protektionismus hervorrufen, denn die Nachfrage nach Protektionismus ist dauerhaft und wandlungsfähig. Neben der Begründung dieser … Entstehung einer Nachfrage nach Protektionismus auf dem politischen Markt grundsätzlich ändert. Ferner wird ein politisches …
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Why Legislators are Protectionists: The Role of Majoritarian Voting in Setting Tariffs
Willmann, Gerald - 2003
Based on the observation that industries are often geographically concentrated, this paper proposes a new political economy model of trade protection. We associate the sectors of a specific factors model with electoral districts populated by continua of heterogeneous voters who differ in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296223
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Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing
Facchini, Giovanni; van Biesebroeck, Johannes; … - 2003
We extend the protection for sale framework by modelling non tariff barriers. Explicitly introducing partial rent capturing leads to a testable specification that bridges the gap between the theoretical Grossman and Helpman (1994) model and its empirical implementation, where coverage ratios...
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Exclusive Dealing and Common Agency in International Markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2004
This paper investigates the contractual choice between exclusive dealing and common agency in a simple international oligopoly model where products are sold through intermediaries. We find that when trade barriers are high domestic firms tend to adopt exclusive dealing contracts, whereas trade...
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