This paper investigates the effects of U.S. AD actions on DCs. It first considers administrative actions by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which decides AD margins for countries. It then considers decision making by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which determines injury to domestic...

The Uruguay Round (UR) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), which was meant to undo the MFA, is to be effected by the year 2005 despite inherent tendencies in the past to continually protect textile and clothing (T&C) industries? How did we get into this protectionist quagmire? What lay...

This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...

Der Beitrag knüpft an eine in MittAB 2/76 und 4/77 ausgtragene Kontroverse über Beschäftigungsprobleme an, wobei im ersten Falle das mehr neoklassische Theorieverständnis, im zweiten Fall eher die Auffassung der Gewerkschaften vorherrschte. Der vorliegende Beitrag bemüht sich die um...

"Die Untersuchung der (mittel- bis langfristigen) Beschäftigungsprobleme in ausgewählten Industriestaaten (Italien, Belgien, Frankreich, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Großbritannien und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika) geht von einem neoklassischen Erklärungsansatz aus, dessen grundlegende...

The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...

We explore the uses of double-calibrated general equilibrium models as a decomposition tool for analysing contributory factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to start and end years, based upon an assumed functional...