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...

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Tariff protection and port privatization : an import-competing approach

Choi, Kangsik; Lim, Seonyoung - In: Maritime economics & logistics : a quarterly scientific … 20 (2018) 2, pp. 228-252

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A tariff on a productive factor and import competing supply

Thompson, Henry - In: The journal of international trade & economic development 25 (2016) 1/2, pp. 71-79

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Trade orientation of industries and employment performance in Indian manufacturing : recent trends, patterns and implications

Jadhav, Kishor; Husain, Tareef - In: Focus : journal of international business 3 (2016) 1, pp. 1-25

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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...

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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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