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Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …
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We estimate the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty in the United States, combining … theory-consistent and narrative sign restrictions in Bayesian SVARs. We find mostly adverse consequences of protectionism, in … depress trade, investment, and output persistently. The general equilibrium import elasticity is -0.8. Historically, NAFTA …
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Industrial prices of goods and services are a function of costs of production and of the mark-up that firms apply on … world prices in domestic currency. We find that, in this respect, the weight attached to world prices is significantly …
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It is well documented that retail prices in Japan are higher than in other countries for similar products. The two main competing explanations for this finding are: (1) a relatively high degree of discriminatory practices against imports, and (2) relatively high distribution costs associated...
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This paper compares the implications of having constant versus variable markups on the Law of One Price (LOP) by decomposing the good-category level prices into marginal costs of production, markups, and trade costs. Using a trade model, it is shown that the case of constant markups corresponds...
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same technology, domestic country-wide profits benefit from small import tariffs whereas foreign counterpart is hit …-sector protectionism damages foreign wage whereas it does not affect domestic wage. Except for the special case where sectors share the …
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This paper presents a new measure of aggregate trade restrictions (MATR) using data from the International Monetary Fund's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is strongly correlated with existing measures of trade restrictiveness but is more comprehensive in...
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We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...
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This report explores the relationship between services trade policies and mark-ups at the firm level, taken as a measure of competitive pressure. Restrictive regulations are found to enable firms to charge higher mark-ups in a majority of services sectors, suggesting ample scope for...
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This paper analyzes markup responses of Danish firms to Chinese imports. Besides negative markup responses due to …
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