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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A firm-level analysis
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high productivity to entering foreign markets, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119286
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The Spread of Antidumping Regimes and the Role of Retaliation in Filings
Feinberg, Robert M.; Olson, Kara M. - EconWPA - 2004
Over the past decade, the world-wide use of antidumping has become very widespread – 41 WTO-member countries initiated … antidumping cases over the 1995-2003 period. From another perspective, US exporters were subjected to 139 antidumping cases during … antidumping filings may be motivated as retaliation against similar measures imposed on a country’s exporters. This is the focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556437
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Tariff Liberalization and Increased Administrative Protection: Is There a Quid Pro Quo?
Feinberg, Robert M.; Olson, Kara M. - EconWPA - 2005
through administrative procedures such as antidumping enforcement will increase as more traditional forms such as tariffs and … liberalization in the spread of antidumping. Through both correlations and regression approaches we analyze the relationship between … tariff concessions made during the Uruguay Round trade negotiations and the filing of antidumping petitions, with particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556458
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Anticipated versus Realized Benefits: Can Event Studies Be Used To Predict the Impact of New Regulations?
Reynolds, Kara M. - EconWPA - 2005
Economists often use event study methodology to evaluate the impact of new regulations on firms before there is enough data to empirically estimate the effects. This research investigates the degree to which event study methodology can provide useful information in this regard by studying how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556466
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REMOVAL OF PROTECTIONISM, FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND WELFARE IN A MODEL OF INFORMAL SECTOR
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukherjee, Ujjaini - EconWPA - 2005
The paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model with two informal sectors with complete mobility of labour between these sectors and with a positive relationship between wage income and labour's efficiency to show that the results relating to foreign capital inflow and removal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556474
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DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY AND GLOBAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN AGRICULTURE: A NOTE
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005
In a production structure reasonable for a developing economy this note shows that there may arise a conflict between the worldwide liberalized trade policies in agriculture, which raise the price of the economy’s primary exportable commodity, and the inflow of foreign capital into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556491
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Commercial Policy Variability, Bindings, and Market Access
Francois, Joseph; Martin, Will - EconWPA - 2002
Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines, such as WTO tariff bindings and bindings on market access in services, constrain this variability. We examine the theoretical effects of such constraints on the expected cost of protection and offer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119315
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Seasonal Fluctuations and International Trade
Kaneda, Mitsuhiro; Mehrez, Gil - EconWPA - 1998
This paper argues that seasonal fluctuations in international trade are large and have non-trivial effects on a country's resource allocation, production, and welfare. Using U.S. quarterly data, we find fluctuations of as much as 43% and 15% for apparel imports and exports respectively, and 7%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119255
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Korea and the World Trade Organization: Problems and Prospects
McGee, Robert W.; Yoon, Yeomin - EconWPA - 1998
obvious protectionist measures, most notably in the areas of environmental and labor standards and antidumping. Korean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408063
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Monitor koffie. Overproductie drukt koffieprijs
Haas, Ralph de - EconWPA - 2002
The current slump in world coffee prices is mainly due to a structural oversupply. Instead of introducing price measures, measures aimed at reducing this excess supply would be a more efficient method of increasing coffee producers'incomes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062639