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The Gains from Trade in a New Model from the IMF: Still Very Small

Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2015

This paper takes a careful look at a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Working Paper that claims to find significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at all large. The IMF paper shows that multilateral...

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Boosting export performance in Portugal

Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2015

In the years before the economic crisis, Portugal had low growth, a decline in export competitiveness and rising imbalances that included a large current account deficit and a strong expansion of the non-tradable sector. Strengthening export performance is therefore one of the principal...

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Outsourcing Tariff Evasion : A New Explanation for EntrepôT Trade

Fisman, Raymond J. - 2011

Traditional explanations for indirect trade carried out through an entrepocirc;t have focused on savings in transport costs and on the role of specialized agents in processing and distribution. We provide an alternative perspective based on the possibility that entrepocirc;ts may facilitate tariff...

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Anti-Dumping Duty Circumvention through Trade Re-Routing : Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Liu, Xuepeng - 2016

We study the evasion of U.S. anti-dumping duties by Chinese exporters through trade rerouting via third countries or regions. Using detailed monthly trade data reported by China and the U.S. Customs during the period of 2002–2006, we find that U.S. anti-dumping actions against China lead to a...

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Redistribution policy and offshoring in general equilibrium

Kohl, Miriam; Naumann, Fabrice - 2021

We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of monopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and occupational choice. The redistribution scheme is modeled by a combination of a progressive income tax and a lump-sum transfer. We find...

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The impacts of trade liberalization on informal labor markets: A theoretical and empirical evaluation of the Brazilian case

Paz, Lourenço S. - In: Journal of International Economics 92 (2014) 2, pp. 330-348

Following trade liberalization, several developing countries experienced a sharp increase in the share of informal manufacturing employment. In this paper, I examine the impacts of trade liberalization on the labor markets of a small open economy, in an environment in which tariffs affect firms'...

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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems

Fredriksson, Per G.; Matschke, Xenia - Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier - 2014

leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of whether pollution taxes are set at the federal (centralized) or local … (decentralized) level, and it increases social welfare. The effect under a decentralized system is smaller than if these taxes are … with trade liberalization if federal taxes are used. …

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The Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization in Tanzania

Epaphra, Manamba - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper examines the argument that trade liberalization depresses the import duty revenue, and consequently adversely affects the total tax revenue. The study is thought to be significant because Tanzania experiences difficulty in replacing import duty revenue loss as a consequence of trade...

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Revenue-enhancing Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries

Mukherjee, Arijit; Haque, M. Emranul - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 2275-2281

Recovering revenue loss due to the reduction in import tariffs is a major concern of many developing economies. In an economy with free entry, which affects the product market competition, we show that, even if there is no other tax reform such as a profit tax reform, the market mechanism itself...

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Trade liberalization and environmental taxation in federal systems

Fredriksson, Per G.; Matschke, Xenia - 2014

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