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Food prices and the multiplier effect of export policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115149
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The importance of special safeguard tariffs (SSG) for Brazilian sugar exports
Costa, Cinthia; Burnquis, Heloisa; Guilhoto, Joaquim - 2015
This paper presents a critical analysis of the SSG and a simulation of its effects for Brazilian sugar exports to … an increase in Brazilian sugar exports in the absence of SSG tariffs was calculated and also the overall impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400315
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If the US-China trade war is here to stay, what are the risks and opportunities for other GVC economies outside the war zone?
Romao, Pedro; Lobo, Richard S. - 2021
international supply-chains: both negatively, via lower exports in affected (tariffed) links, as well as positively via enhanced … exports demand in alternative ones. We find that the current trade war has been overall positive for third-party economies …, shifting US$ 61.1 billion in net exports away from the US-China link towards other economies. Due to export asymmetries in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012632174
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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2014
Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of effective protection in about 50 developed and developing countries from 1995 to 2008. The paper reviews also the role of preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464593
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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 31 October 2014
Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of effective protection in about 50 developed and developing countries from 1995 to 2008. The paper reviews also the role of preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457253
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Exploring the Policy Dimensions of Trade in Value-Added
Escaith, Hubert - 2014
Global Value Chains are a dominant feature of today's global economy, yet their analysis is still incipient from an empirical perspective. Building on a recent OECD-WTO database and the results of an on-going research at WTO, the present essay contributes at filling this gap. The effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044276
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A Macroeconomic Measure for Reshoring and a Note on the Offshoring-Reshoring Nexus
Krenz, Astrid - 2018
Research on reshoring has received increasing interest in the past literature, however it has not yet been adequately measured in macroeconomic studies. In this note I give an example of how a declining degree of offshoring is not able to indicate reshoring. Moreover, I briefly talk about a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917780
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If the US-China trade war is here to stay, what are the risks and opportunities for other GVC economies outside the war zone?
Witada Anukoonwattaka; Romao, Pedro; Lobo, Richard S. - 2021
international supply-chains: both negatively, via lower exports in affected (tariffed) links, as well as positively via enhanced … exports demand in alternative ones. We find that the current trade war has been overall positive for third-party economies …, shifting US$ 61.1 billion in net exports away from the US-China link towards other economies. Due to export asymmetries in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626310
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Withering Globalization? The Global Value Chain Effects of Trade Decoupling
Escaith, Hubert - 2021
occurs when the trade belligerents redeploy their unsold exports towards third countries, increasing competition for market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225458
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Extraction-cum-Substitution : A KISS Approach to Mapping the Impacts of Bilateral Trade Conflicts
Escaith, Hubert - 2019
This paper builds on input-output and trade analysis to propose a new method to derive plausible scenarios in the case of trade conflicts that could disrupt international supply chains. It measures three spill-over effects affecting third countries: trade deviation, trade destruction and trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105150