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-discrimination, namely MFN and national treatment. This has manifested itself in 1) growing resort to protectionism in the wake of the crisis …
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Chinese protectionism. For the first 15 members to join the European Union this paper estimates the factors affecting the … protectionism by China contributed too. …
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This paper examines the welfare effects of protection in two sectors characterized by high wage premia, autos and steel, to determine if protection is justified to correct for the labor misallocation due to wage premia. If wage premia are exogenous, under most product market structures, labor...
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Based on evidence about industrial organization and market structure, this paper develops a CGE model with increasing returns to scale (IRTS) in selected industrial sectors in order to estimate the welfare gains Korea would achieve from abolishing the import restraints (tariffs and equivalent...
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This paper addresses several questions of concern to economies excluded from the world's two major trading blocs <196> the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA). First, is there evidence from the past that suggests the direct and indirect effects of regional...</196>
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The persistence of large trade and budget imbalances has led to increasing demands for protectionist policies. Despite a substantial theoretical literature there appears to be no empirical literature on the use of tariffs as a macroeconomic policy instrument. This paper fills that gap, using the...
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This paper appraises the arguments that the creation of the EC has increased world protectionism <MI>relative to what …
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We analyse a rich cross-country data set that contains information on attitudes toward trade as well as a broad range of socio-demographic, and other, indicators. We find that pro-trade preferences are significantly and robustly correlated with an individual's level of human capital, in the...
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Drawing upon a comprehensive database of contemporary protectionism, this paper offers an initial assessment of the … extent to which our understanding of protectionism may have to evolve. While some long-standing features of protectionism …
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robustly associated with protectionism. Moreover, right-wing protectionism concerns not just agriculture but appears to be a …
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