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I've been everywhere (except Mexico) : investor responses to NAFTA's cross-border trucking provisions
Davies, Ronald B.; Liebman, Benjamin H.; Tomlin, Kasaundra - 2015
We investigate the response of US trucking firms to the removal of barriers to crossborder trucking under NAFTA. This was done via a program implemented in 2007, cancelled in 2009, and reinstated in 2011. We find that, unsurprisingly, the program's start resulted in lower stock returns,...
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The Proprietary Rights Initiatives in Canadian Film Distribution Policy
Acheson, Keith; Maule, Christopher J. - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2000
Introduction: In the past two decades, the Canadian federal government, the province of Quebec, and the federal broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), have regulated the film distribution industry by adopting proprietary rights policies. The...
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Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) : audio-visual services
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Lejárraga, Iza; Miroudot, … - 2014
This paper presents the services trade restrictiveness indices (STRIs) for motion pictures, television and broadcasting and sound recording. The STRIs are composite indices taking values between zero and one, zero representing an open market and one a market completely closed to foreign services...
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Chapter 33 Culture in International Trade
Acheson, Keith; Maule, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1141-1182). 2006
. Arguments for protection versus openness for cultural activities are more complex and nuanced than for other economic sectors …
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International trade regulation and job creation : trade policy is not an employment policy and should not be expected to have major effects on overall employment
Winters, Leonard Alan - 2014
position has neither theoretical support nor empirical evidence in its favor. Given that protection may have other - usually …
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Tariffs passing through retailers : do tariffs actually protect domestic manufacturers?
Cole, Matthew T.; Eckel, Carsten - 2014
Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy are based on theoretical models that assume foreign manufacturers sell directly to consumers. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that wholesalers and retailers play an...
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Private information and optimal infant industry protection
Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Zhang, Yuzhe - 2022
We study infant industry protection using a dynamic model in which the industry's cost is initially higher than that of …. We show that (i) the optimal protection, measured by infant industry output, declines over time and is less than that … under public information, (ii) the optimal protection policy is time consistent under public information but not under …
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Trade protection in India : economics vs. politics?
Gang, Ira N.; Pandey, Mihir - 1996
This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector … compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels of protection. Moreover, the degree of protection should change as the … industries may enjoy a great deal of protection because of political lobbying (...) …
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Published and realized tariffs : the weak link
Gang, Ira N.; Pandey, Mihir - 1996 - Revised
This paper investigates the link between published tariff rates and realized tariff rates using Indian inter-industry manufacturing sector data over three Plan periods. Understanding this link is important as economies liberalize trade and must deal with the potential revenue shortfalls: if the...
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