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political and lobbying expenditures have increased much more in America than in Europe, and using data across industries and …
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Despite the recent inroads made by models of interregional trade based on external" economies, the analysis of the long-run trends in U.S. regional specialization in agriculture manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, services, and all economic activities indicate that" these trends are...
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During the decade since 1973, the U.S. economy has become increasingly interdependent with the newly industrializing countries (NICs) among the developing countries. These countries have had high investment ratios to GNP, financed mainly by domestic saving, but also partly by foreign borrowing....
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Using the menu-auction approach to endogenous determination of tariffs and allowing additionally for lobby formation itself to be endogenous, this paper analyzes the impact of unilateral trade liberalization by one country on its partner's trade policies. We find that such unilateral...
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We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...
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How do foreign interests influence the policy determination process? What are the welfare implications of such foreign influence? In this paper we develop a model of foreign influence and apply it to the study of optimal tariffs. We develop a two-country voting model of electoral competition,...
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objective of involving large developing countries such as China and India in a post 2012 regime, broader considerations imply …
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as it substitutes expenditures into own goods and improve its terms of trade with non retaliatory regions, while China …, while the surplus region, China, and the ROW have welfare gains. In both models, when the bilateral tariff rates are very … will are borne by the US and China in lost exports, lowered terms of trade and adjustment costs at home …
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Because of large and rapid growing export volumes and its formal status as a non-market economy; China has been the … are against China; India, in turn, is the largest source of initiation against China by number of actions. Here we explore … empirically. We use industrial panel data on all Chinese firms in the industry, foreign firms operating within China and state …
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real consumption for a select group of nations in Europe and some large countries like China and Russia, but lower in most …
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