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In the absence of an international agreement on climate policy, unilateral carbon abatement creates two problems: It tends to have a detrimental effect on domestic competitiveness, and it leads to an increase in carbon emissions abroad (leakage). This paper analyses two policies that have...
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We estimate the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty in the United States, combining …
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Online Technical Appendix to "Fighting Global Warming: Is Trade Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean a Help or a Hindrance?"It describes in more detail the data sources, the empirical strategy; and presents a series of robustness checks.
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remain as valid as ever, it no longer seems feasible in a world that is already engaging actively in using trade policy for …
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The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...
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This article empirically investigates the impact of trade barriers on the world wine trade, focusing on trade costs … impeding exports, including transport, tariffs, technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitarystandards. A gravity model is …. A decreasing trend for tariffs has largely been compensated by more stringent technical barriers. The overall result is …
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The role of international trade was irreplaceable at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, especially the trade in medical supplies and food for all affected countries. Trade as a part of this crisis, certainly should not be an element of further countries' closing and new trade barriers...
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Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...
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As the European carbon border adjustment (CBA) mechanism is high up on the European Commission's agenda and soon to be implemented, it is important to understand the economic and environmental implications of alternative designs of such a mechanism. To this end and with a view to informing the...
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context of fossil fuel subsidy reform. In view of climate change mitigation, the World Trade Organization (WTO) should …
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