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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity
Behar, Alberto - 2013
, despite the larger trade elasticities implied by firm heterogeneity. As a consequence, the world-wide trade response, though …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085999
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Chapter 2. The Escape Clause in Trade Agreements
Beshkar, M.; Bond, E.W. - 2016
We provide a synthesis of the theoretical models that study the use of escape clauses, also known as safeguards, in multilateral and preferential trade agreements. We consider models that explain this type of flexibility based on economic efficiency, political economy shocks, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023452
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Characterising non-tariff trade policy
Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020
notifications to the World Trade Organization and complementary information provided by the Temporary Trade Barriers Database, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262471
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Trade in health products : reducing trade barriers for better health
Helble, Matthias; Shepherd, Benjamin - 2017
throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … present evidence that countries around the world still apply tariffs and nontariff measures that increase prices and limit the … World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement as a starting point, can be linked to improved handling of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591118
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The macro-economic impact of e-commerce in the EU Digital Single Market
Cardona, Mélisande; Duch-Brown, Néstor; Francois, … - 2015
This paper examines the economic impact of a change in retail technology - the shift from offline to online shopping - and a change in policy - measures to reduce the barriers to online trade perceived by consumers and retailers. Contrary to the prevalent micro-economic partial equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980243
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The elasticity of trade : estimates and evidence
Simonovska, Ina; Waugh, Michael E. - 2011
Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010513
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Trade policy versus trade facilitation : an application using "good old" OLS
Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2012
Trade policy barriers are only one element of overall trade costs. Among these, and due to the decrease in the influence of tariff barriers on trade over time, institutional barriers might increase in relative importance and become a key obstacle to the movements of goods across countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521468
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Intangible barriers to international trade : a sectoral approach
Möhlmann, Jan L.; Ederveen, Sjef; Groot, Henri L. F. de; … - 2009
This paper studies the importance of intangible barriers to trade in explaining variation in disaggregate international trade. The analysis is based on a sample of 55 countries for the year 2000. We explicitly focus on the importance of institutional and cultural dimensions of distance. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377611
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Cascading trade protection : evidence from the US
Erbahar, Aksel; Zi, Yuan - 2016
In a world with increasingly integrated global supply chains, trade policy targeting upstream products has unintended … barriers of the US using its detailed input-output tables. As predicted by the theory, we find that measures on imported inputs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539982
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Trade policy versus trade facilitation : an application using "Good Old" OLS
Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2011
Trade policy barriers are only one element of overall trade costs. Among these, and due to the decrease in the influence of tariff barriers on trade over time, institutional barriers might increase in relative importance and become a key obstacle to the movements of goods across countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298313