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Teti, Feodora - 2024

Solution (WITS), and selection bias from dropping tariffs when no trade is recorded. I develop a novel interpolation algorithm …

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Trade Policy along the Global Value Chain: A Rationale for the Existence of Deep Trade Agreements

Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2022

This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize in the production of sub-stages of the global value chain. In the open economy, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...

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Trade Liberalization and Local Development in India: Evidence from Nighttime Lights

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2023

We study the impact of the Indian trade liberalization of 1991 on development at the district level using satellite nighttime lights per capita as a proxy for development. We find that on average trade liberalization increased nighttime lights per capita but there was considerable heterogeneity...

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Containing Tariff Evasion

Anne, Clement; Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2023

To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...

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The Free Rider Effect and Market Power in Trade Agreements

Wong, Woan Foong - 2023

Regional trade agreements have proliferated in the past two decades while multilateral trade negotiations have stalled. Both these agreements are governed by the WTO and have to abide by the non-discriminatory (Most-Favored Nation, MFN) clause to varying degrees-regional agreements to a lesser...

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Welfare Effects of Migration in Societies with Indirect Taxes, Income Transfers and Public Good Provision

Michael, Michael S.; Hatzipanayotou, Panos - 2000

We construct a general equilibrium trade model of a two-class small open host or source country. When consumption tax revenue finances the provision of a public good, marginal migration reduces social welfare in the source country and raises it in the host. When consumption tax revenue is...

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Non-Tariff Barriers and Trade Liberalization

Anderson, Simon P.; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2000

This paper shows that governments have no incentive to introduce non-tariff barriers when they are free to set tariffs … but they do when tariffs are determined cooperatively. We then show three results. First, with trade liberalization, there … is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas, and to antidumping constraints (when quotas are jointly eliminated …

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Small Countries and Preferential Trade Agreements How Severe is the Innocent Bystander Problem?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Riezman, Raymond - 2000

tariffs in these two cases considering three different equilibria: Free Trade (FT), Free Trade Area (FTA), and Customs Union …

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The Sources of Protectionist Drift in Representative Democracies

Laussel, Didier; Riezman, Raymond - 2001

We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...

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US Inequality in the 1980s: The Tokyo Round Trade Liberalization and the Swiss Formula

Greenland, Andrew; Lake, James; Lopresti, John - 2024

reduction in average US tariffs – larger than CUS-FTA, NAFTA, and the liberalization accompanying the granting of PNTR to China … intermediate inputs. Finally, we show that policymakers dampened the observed impact of tariffs on inequality by assigning smaller …

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