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International trade regulation and job creation

Winters, L. Alan - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

position has neither theoretical support nor empirical evidence in its favor. Given that protection may have other - usually …

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Regulatory autonomy and multilateral disciplines: The dilemma and a possible resolution

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 1998

A major challenge for the multilateral trading system is to secure the benefits of trade liberalization without infringing on the freedom of governments to pursue legitimate domestic objectives. The difficulty lies in distinguishing between two types of situations. In one, a non-protectionist...

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Dealing with monopolies and state enterprises: WTO rules for goods and services

Mattoo, Aaditya - 1997

The objective of this paper is to assess the adequacy of multilateral rules dealing with monopolies and state enterprises, particularly in the domain of services. This paper argues that since these rules depend largely on the other obligations undertaken by Members, a variety of exemptions and...

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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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On the spread and impact of antidumping

Prusa, Thomas J. - 1999

This paper documents two key costs of AD protection. First, once AD has been adopted countries often have a difficult … impact of AD protection most surely implies that AD will continue to be a key negotiating item in the next WTO round. …

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Revenue Motives and Trade Liberalization in an Endogenous Tariff Model

Gang, Ira N. - 1994

-maker would respond to lower world prices by reducing tariff protection for an import-competing industry. An initial tariff that …

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A Schumpeterian Model of Protection and Relative Wages

Dinopoulos, Elias; Segerstrom, Paul - 1996

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of trade between two advanced countries in which both innovation and skilled acquisition rates are endogenously determined. The model offers a North-North (as opposed to a North-South) trade explanation for increasing relative wage...

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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 world court of human rights feasibility study

Saktorová, L'ubica - In: DANUBE: Law, Economics and Social Issues Review 9 (2018) 1, pp. 37-47

create a system capable of the worldwide protection of individual human rights. The focus of the present study is to … mechanisms of the current international human rights protection system would lead to deliberation on the prospective substantial …

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Ideology, Inequality and Inequitable Trade Policies

Djerdjian, Daron O - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

Abstract Does more wealth inequality lead to more inequitable trade policies? To answer this question, this study develops a political economy model of international trade theory and predicts that in a pro-worker regime, an increase in wealth inequality leads to more equitable trade policies. In...

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