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Industrial and Trade Policies for the Emerging Market Economies

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The purpose of this paper is to suggest how institutions can be created and modified to devise and implement industrial policy in the emerging market economies. Two main issues confronting industrial policy institutions are how to avoid regulatory capture, that is, having those policy-makers...

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Does 1992 Come Before or After 1990? On Regional Versus Multilateral Integration

Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

impact of integration on trade and welfare. The second part briefly reviews the experience of the first thirty years of …

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Integration, Trade Policy and European Footwear Trade

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper constructs a simulation model of the EC footwear market with which to consider the effects of EC trade policies. It examines the Southern enlargement of the EC, the quotas imposed on Korean and Taiwanese sales - initially in France and Italy and subsequently, in line with the `1992'...

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Household Inequality, Welfare and the Setting of Trade Policy

Francois, Joseph; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality …-adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household inequality. This … yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality in Heckscher …

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Does Bilateralism Promote Trade? Nineteenth Century Liberalization Revisited

Accominotti, Olivier; Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Textbook accounts of the Anglo-French trade agreement of 1860 argue that it heralded the beginning of a liberal trading order. This alleged success has much interest from a policy point of view: unlike modern GATT/WTO multilateral agreements, it rested on bilateral negotiations. But, in reality,...

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Free Trade and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Can We Have One Without the Other?

Goh, Ai Ting; Olivier, Jacques - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

welfare implications of an international agreement on one or both policy instruments. High tariffs and low patent protection … needed to achieve any positive welfare gains, which supports the long standing claim of policy makers from developed …

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Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper examines whether, in the presence of trade preferences, Sub-Saharan African economies, and especially its poorest households, could gain from multilateral trade reform. The World Bank’s LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade...

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Diverging incentives for reforming China’s restrictions on digital innovations

Ferracane, Martina Francesca; Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 10 (2017) 3, pp. 259-280

Purpose This paper aims to investigate China’s policy on digital trade with the objective to highlight the rationales behind such policy. Design/methodology/approach China’s policy on digital trade is assessed by analysing the main regulations imposed in the country in the period from 1985...

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China’s foreign trade policy with OPEC member countries

Rasoulinezhad, Ehsan - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 10 (2017) 1, pp. 61-81

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze specifications of the China’s foreign trade policy with Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member countries. Design/methodology/approach The paper conducts three panel data estimations (fixed effect [FE], random effect [RE]...

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Sensitivity analysis in an imperfect substitutes model of preferential trade

A. Reinert, Kenneth - In: Journal of Economic Studies 41 (2014) 5, pp. 630-643

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a formal representation of the imperfect substitutes model (ISM) of partial equilibrium, trade policy analysis and to conduct sensitivity analysis on the behavioral parameters of the model. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops an...

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