Search Results - subject:"Import competing"

On the Distributive Effects of Terms of Trade Shocks; The Role of Non-Tradable Goods

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

We introduce non-tradable goods to the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson (HOS) model to study the distributive effects of terms of trade shocks. We show that the employment of resources in activities producing exclusively for the local market induces a crucial association between domestic spending and...

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Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?

Tokarick, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper points out that while many developing countries seek to increase their export earnings, they have not embraced fully the notion that their own pattern of import protection hurts their export performance. The paper quantifies the extent to which import protection acts as a tax on a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599612

Who Can Explain the Mauritian Miracle; Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik?

Subramanian, Arvind; Roy, Devesh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper examines different explanations-initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions-of the Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading or incomplete, and the transmission mechanism...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263839

Effects of World Price and Oil Export Price Increases in the Framework of One-sector and Two-Sector Stylized Models

Kapsalyamova, Zhanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

distinguish between the two effects generated by the oil export price increase, namely the balance-of-trade effect and the import-competing … the economy runs a trade surplus or a trade deficit in the benchmark equilibrium, with the import-competing effect set … and which sector shrinks in the wake of the oil export price increase. The import-competing effect, under the assumption …

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Import Competition and Manufacturing Employment in Japan

Sasaki, Hitoshi - Bank of Japan - 2007

This paper investigates the effects of increased import competition on Japanese manufacturing employment at the four-digit industry level from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. The estimation results of a labor demand equation indicate that decreases in import prices are closely related to the...

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Vietnam; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This Selected Issues paper assesses the impact of Vietnamâ€™s World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. It describes the main terms of Vietnamâ€™s accession as regards trade in goods and services, and uses a partial equilibrium simulation model to estimate the likely impact of WTO...

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Immiserizing Foreign Aid; The Role of Tariffs and Nontraded Goods

Tokarick, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

International trade theory has pointed out that factor accumulation could immiserize a country if it is sufficiently biased toward the export sector, or if it is biased toward an importcompeting sector in the presence of tariff protection. This paper analyzes the impact of aid, in the form of an...

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South Africa; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This paper discusses South Africaâ€™s recent growth performance and its new growth targets. It analyzes the history of exchange rate volatility, compares it with other countries, and examines the relationship between volatility and trade flows in South Africa. It highlights facts on...

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Trade and Growth in the Presence of Distortions

Tokarick, Stephen; Cassing, James H - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Tariffs and other policy distortions typically lower real national income relative to what it otherwise would have been for any given rate of factor accumulation. Even while lowering real income, however, policy distortions may raise an economy's real measured growth rate and so, somewhat...

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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective

Irwin, Douglas A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...

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