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Online Technical Appendix to "Fighting Global Warming: Is Trade Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean a Help or a Hindrance?"It describes in more detail the data sources, the empirical strategy; and presents a series of robustness checks.
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The dire prospects of global warming have been increasing the pressure on policymakers to use trade policy as a mitigation tool, challenging trade economists' canonical "targeting principle." Even though the justifications for this stance remain as valid as ever, it no longer seems feasible in a...
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intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous consumption good from the technologically advanced country. This vertical …
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This paper investigates the impact of food safety standards promulgated by governments or imposed by buyers from the private sector on the capacity of developing countries to access developed countries' markets for high value agricultural and food products. I offer an analysis that disentangles...
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This paper finds that U.S. consumer prices fell substantially due to increased trade with China. With comprehensive price micro-data and two complementary identification strategies, we estimate that a 1pp increase in import penetration from China causes a 1.91% decline in consumer prices. This...
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This paper examines the impact of the antidumping measures initiated by the Government of Egypt on imports during the … the value, the volume and the price of imports. Second, it differentiates between the investigation, destruction and …, there is an investigation effect since imports are likely to decrease during the investigation review period and before the …
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Although many firms operate on global digital platforms, small countries and firms also play an essential role at the national level, especially during crises and the slowdown in globalization. This research investigates trade patterns in digital services at the country and firm level and...
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Several empirical studies document the relevance of firm heterogeneity to assess the effect of trade and environmental policy. This paper develops a multi-country and -sector general equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous firms and analyzes the effect of domestic carbon pricing as well as...
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This empirical study investigates the process of adjustment of imports to changes in the level of domestic activity … aggregate demand for imports in these countries over the last two decades, applying standard econometric techniques complemented …
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World trade has grown rapidly. Several factors are highlighted by literature as a driving force behind the growth of world trade. Reduction in barriers to trade is one of them. A comprehensive empirical investigation is carried to ascertain the trade reducing and increasing effect of barriers to...
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