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Consequences of Brexit and Options for a 'Global Britain'

Brakman, Steven - 2017

The United Kingdom has opted to leave the European Union. The trade and welfare consequences of this decision are large; most studies predict a trade and welfare loss for both the UK and the EU. The UK parliament has indicated that it aims for new and ambitious trade agreements following Brexit,...

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Going Deep : The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP

Aichele, Rahel - 2015

Since July 2013, the EU and the US have been negotiating a preferential trade agreement (PTA), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multi-country, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and international input-output linkages to quantify its potential...

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Gains and Losses of India-China Trade Cooperation - A Gravity Model Impact Analysis

Bhattacharya, Swapan K.; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2021

As revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People's Republic of China have significant bilateral trade potential, which has remained unexplored until now. These countries are presently negotiating for bilateral free-trade arrangements based on their complementarities. This paper...

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Globalization : A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap

Bøler, Esther Ann - 2015

While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to...

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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies

Huttunen, Kristiina - 2010

Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the … empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a …

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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions

Arezki, Rabah - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...

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Special Economic Zones and WTO Compliance : Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Defever, Fabrice - 2018

subsidies - to evaluate how ESR effect export performance at the product- and firm-level. Using customs data on international …, often impose export share requirements (ESR). That is, firms located in SEZ are required to export more than a certain share … on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. In this paper we exploit the staggered removal of ESR across products and over …

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The Impact of Basel III on Trade Finance : The Potential Unintended Consequences of the Leverage Ratio

Auboin, Marc - 2014

Trade finance, particularly in the form of short-term letters of credit has received favourable capital treatment new Basel III rules. However, concerns have been expressed over the potential negative “unintended consequences” of the newly created leverage ratio for trade. This paper offers...

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Quantifying the Economic Effects of an EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement

Benz, Sebastian - 2013

The European Union and Japan have recently launched negotiations about a bilateral free trade agreement as means of economic stimulation, with trade as a driving force to create growth and wealth. Since customs duties are already low, the success of the liberalization process hinges on the...

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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment

Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...

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