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Can Subsidies for MARs be Procompetitive?

Krishna, Kala - 2000

long as the US firms are the ones targeted to receive the subsidy …

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The Uneasy Marriage of Export Incentives and the Income Tax

Desai, Mihir A. - 2000

ad valorem subsidy. Second, the 1984 imposition of more rigorous requirements for obtaining tax benefits through Foreign …

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Capital Subsidies and Countervailing Duties in Oligopolistic Industries

Spencer, Barbara J. - 1988

the amount of duty to the amount of the subsidy. This paper examines a generalized model of imperfect competition with … capital subsidies and shows the conditions under which a countervailing duty will offset the effect of the subsidy on exports …. In addition, the paper considers whether profit shifting motives for a subsidy still exist even when this maximum duty is …

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Counterfeit-Product Trade

Grossman, Gene M. - 1986

We analyze a two-country model of trade in both legitimate and counterfeit products. Domestic firms own trademarks and establish reputations for delivering high-quality products in a steady-state equilibrium. Foreign suppliers export legitimate low-quality merchandise and counterfeits of...

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The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade : Embassies as Export Promotion

Rose, Andrew K. - 2005

As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing themselves as agents of export promotion. I investigate whether exports are in fact systematically...

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The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone : Background, Developments and Preliminary Assessment of Initial Impacts

Yao, Daqing - 2015

The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ) founded one year ago is a trial for China's new round of reform and opening out, which has promised liberalization on capital account and trade facilitation as its main objectives. Here we discuss the differences between the SPFTZ and other free...

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The Rise of Middle Kingdoms : Emerging Economies in Global Trade

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2012

In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade...

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Contractual Versus Non-Contractual Trade : The Role of Institutions in China

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012

Recent research has demonstrated the importance of institutional quality at the country level for both the volume of trade and the ability to trade in differentiated goods that rely on contract enforcement. This paper takes advantage of cross-provincial variation in institutional quality in...

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Fiscal Devaluations

Farhi, Emmanuel - 2011

tariff and export subsidy, and two, a value-added tax increase and a uniform payroll tax reduction. When the devaluations are …

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Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform : Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Khandelwal, Amit K. - 2011

If trade barriers are managed by inefficient institutions, trade liberalization can lead to greater-than-expected gains. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the elimination of externally imposed export quotas. We find that the surge in export value and decline in...

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