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export premium without controlling for import status is likely to overestimate the actual value by capturing the import …
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Growing concern over health risks associated with food products is at the forefront of trade policy debate. At the heart of this debate is the "precautionary principle," which holds that precautions should be taken against health, safety, and environmental risks even when science has not...
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products developing countries want to export: agricultural, and food products - especially such staples as sugar, cereals, and …
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aggregation model is able to explain a sizable proportion of pass-through of competitors' exchange rates to import prices, and …
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The petroleum sector contributes substantially to the Nigerian economy; however, the potential benefits are diminished because of the existence of significant subsidies on imports of petroleum products. Subsidies on imported petroleum products are considered to be an important instrument for...
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The paper analyzes the relationship between country size and the use of imported intermediate inputs by firms in 76 developing countries. Recent evidence indicates that the use of imported inputs can have a large, positive effect on productivity and growth, thus motivating a better understanding...
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are of foreign origin. Furthermore, the paper shows that there may be a nonlinear relationship between import costs and …
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This paper decomposes manufacturing import growth rates in a selected set of large industrial and developing countries … of the world and from developing countries for aggregate and three-digit manufacturing sectors. Import growth is much …
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to under 50 percent. In turn, this reduction in time produces a 7 percent increase in import value. The paper finds …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the estimate of 7 percent import growth along an intensive margin is roughly consistent with a 0 …
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more competitive, and as a result they export more. To evaluate how this policy may impact firms export performance, the … paper analyzes the impact of input tariff reduction on different margins of trade with emphasis on export markets and …-in-difference estimator using heterogeneous access to import tariff exemption as a measure of different levels of exposure to input tariff …
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