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Measuring Industry Specific Protection : Antidumping in the United States
Staiger, Robert W. - 1994
This paper provides estimates of the trade impacts of U.S. antidumping law and the determinants of suit filing activity from 1980-1985. We study three possible channels through which the threat or mere possibility of antidumping duties can restrict trade which we believe, when combined with the...
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Imports as a Cause of Injury : The Case of the U.S. Steel Industry
Grossman, Gene M. - 1984
Recently, the United States International Trade Commission conducted a Section 201 or "escape clause" hearing to determine whether imports have been the most significant cause of injury to the U.S. steel industry. This paper suggests a methodology for conducting the necessary analysis for such...
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The Employment and Wage Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Grossman, Gene M. - 1982
A new methodology is developed to determine the extent to which import competition has been responsible for labor displacements and wage movements inspecific, allegedly trade-impacted sectors. The procedure involves the estimation of reduced-form wage and employment equations by sector. These...
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Resilience in Vertical Supply Chains
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Sabal, Alejandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Forward-looking investments determine the resilience of firms' supply chains. Such investments confer externalities on other firms in the production network. We compare the equilibrium and optimal allocations in a general equilibrium model with an arbitrary number of vertical production tiers....
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GATT-Think
Bagwell, Kyle - 2000
We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. Our discussion … review therefore offers support for the (politically-augmented) terms-of-trade theory as an appropriate framework within …
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Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes
Bagwell, Kyle - 2000
The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets. Indeed, these … predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the … theory is augmented to allow for politically-motivated governments, so that the sign of export policy may be converted from …
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Imperfect Labor Contracts and International Trade
Grossman, Gene M. - 1999
In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of human capital are an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two sectors, one where output is produced by teams and another where individuals can work alone. When workers' abilities...
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The Simple Economics of Labor Standards and the GATT
Bagwell, Kyle - 1998
How should the issue of domestic labor standards be handled in the GATT/ WTO? This question is part of a broader debate over the appropriate scope of international economic institutions such as the GATT, where member-countries are considering proposals for a new round of n3 negotiations that...
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Free Trade vs. Strategic Trade : A Peek into Pandora's Box
Grossman, Gene M. - 1997
We investigate whether a welfare-maximizing government ought to pursue a program of" strategic trade intervention or instead commit itself to free trade when domestic firms will have an opportunity to manipulate the government's choice of the level of" intervention. Domestic firms may overinvest...
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An Economic Theory of GATT
Bagwell, Kyle - 1997
Despite the important roel played by GATT in the world economy, economist have nto developed a unified theoretical framework that interprets and evaluates the principles that form the foundation of GATT. Our purpose here is to propose such a framework. Working within a general equilibrium trade...
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