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Trade facilitation during COVID-19 pandemic

Popović Petrović, Ivana - In: Ekonomske teme 60 (2022) 3, pp. 303-321

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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WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes

Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2016

Using a panel of 97 mostly developing and transitional countries for the period 1990-2011, this paper explores fiscal implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well as semi-parametric methods, we find that...

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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 …

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Ben Bernanke in Doha : the effect of monetary policy on optimal tariffs

Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2016

infinite future. In this paper I analyze the setting of tariffs in a two-country model taking account of adjustment processes … induces policy makers with a short planning horizon to set lower tariffs because it enhances the short run boom following a … cut in tariffs. Monetary policy that aggressively fights deviations from its inflation target leads to even lower tariffs. …

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