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Trade Policies and the Changing Patterns of Protectionism during the Global Financial and Economic Crisis
Ghibutiu, Agnes - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 4 (2012) 1
recent global economic contraction did not trigger a massive wave of protectionism as expected. Despite important adjustments … protectionist measures, there is a widely shared belief that crisis related protectionism has been kept under control, being rather … economic nationalism and protectionism. The views on intensity, dynamics and potential impact of current contemporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145138
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Trade Protectionism: An Increasing Threat to Global Economic Recovery
Ghibutiu, Agnes - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 5 (2013) 3, pp. 166-170
protectionism as expected. Nevertheless, numerous countries have adjusted their trade policies during the financial crisis to … mitigate its negative effects. Despite the widely shared view that crisis-related protectionism has been limited and kept under … global economy, the paper highlights the main trends in the recent evolution of trade protectionism. It takes stock of the …
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Protectionism and economic growth : causal evidence from the first era of globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020
We investigate how protectionist policies influence economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We employ the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387616
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Protectionism and economic growth : causal evidence from the first era of globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2021
We investigate how protectionist policies influence short-run economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337792
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Digital trade in Europe and Central Asia
Tan, Shawn W. - 2017
The Internet greatly increases firms' potential to produce new goods and service for new markets. The Internet is also having a dramatic impact on services, especially in the retail, trade and finance sectors, by enabling firms to digitize their products and deliver them over long distances....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667011
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Spain, split and talk : quantifying regional independence
Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Paniagua, Jordi - 2023
We quantify the economic impact of a potential secession of Catalonia from Spain. Using a novel dataset of trade flows between 17 Spanish sub-national regions and 142 countries, we estimate effects of different levels of borders on trade flows and uncover heterogeneity in country-to-country,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422586
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Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri; … - 2007
This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, we extend the `protection for sale' model to allow for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296272
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Understanding the weakness in global trade - What is the new normal?
Cabrillac, Bruno; Al-Haschimi, Alexander; Babecká … - 2016
Global trade has been exceptionally weak over the past four years. While global trade grew at approximately twice the rate of GDP prior to the Great Recession, the ratio of global trade to GDP growth has declined to about unity since 2012. This paper assesses to what extent the change in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606330
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Trade Liberalisation in Europe and the Rest of the World
Spiridon, Cristian - In: CES Working Papers 4 (2012) 3, pp. 407-418
The present paper aims to disseminate how liberalisation processes were conducted around the globe and especially in Europe since the XIXth century up to date. The research objective is to review the liberalisation of trade dynamics and create an image of the architecture of the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017015
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Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri; … - 2007
This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, we extend the protection for sale' model to allow for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264092