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Chapter 2. The Escape Clause in Trade Agreements
Beshkar, M.; Bond, E.W. - 2016
We provide a synthesis of the theoretical models that study the use of escape clauses, also known as safeguards, in multilateral and preferential trade agreements. We consider models that explain this type of flexibility based on economic efficiency, political economy shocks, and...
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Ambiguous protection
Gründler, Klaus; Hillman, Arye L. - 2021
Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the ambiguity of intent. We set out a model that when applied...
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Chapter 1. The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, C.P.; Crowley, M.A. - In: Handbook of commercial policy : vol 1A-1B, (pp. 3-108). 2016
represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have …, how liberalized is world trade? Our analysis documents the extent of cross-sectional heterogeneity in applied commercial … policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy. …
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U.S. Contingent Protection Against Honey Imports : Development Aspects and the Doha Round
Nogués, Julio J. - 2003
%. This sequential pattern of increasing and widening protectionism to include successful exporters under contingent … the US. Thousands of poor people around the world live from honey production, and contingent protection measures …
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Cascading trade protection : evidence from the US
Erbahar, Aksel; Zi, Yuan - 2016
In a world with increasingly integrated global supply chains, trade policy targeting upstream products has unintended … barriers of the US using its detailed input-output tables. As predicted by the theory, we find that measures on imported inputs …
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The impact of regulatory heterogeneity on global value chain-related trade
Lombini, Alessio - 2021
In this paper, I estimate the impact of heterogeneity in non-tariff-measures (NTMs) policies on countries' global value chains (GVCs)-related trade and its backward and forward components. I firstly build a regulatory distance (RD) index, which measures the degree of dissimilarity in NTMs...
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Protectionist Responses to the Crisis : Global Trends and Implications
Bussière, Matthieu - 2011
In this paper we take a systematic look at recent trends in global protectionism and at the potential implications of a … since the mid-2000s, and has possibly intensified since the start of the financial crisis. However, no World Trade … Organization (WTO) member has retreated into widespread trade restrictions or protectionism to date. Our model-based simulations …
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Protectionist Responses to the Crisis - Global Trends and Implications
Bussière, Matthieu - 2014
In this paper we take a systematic look at recent trends in global protectionism and at the potential implications of a … since the mid-2000s, and has possibly intensified since the start of the financial crisis. However, no World Trade … Organization (WTO) member has retreated into widespread trade restrictions or protectionism to date. Our model-based simulations …
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Domestic Policies, Hidden Protection and the GATT/WTO
Bajona, Claustre - 2012
As tariff barriers have fallen worldwide, regulation of domestic policy has become increasingly important in international trade agreements. This has led to the emergence of a theoretical literature addressing the integration of perfectly observable domestic policy into trade agreements....
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A Simple Method to Quantify the Ex-Ante Effects of "Deep" Trade Liberalization and "Hard" Trade Protection
Larch, Mario; Tan, Shawn W.; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the “deep” impact of trade liberalization and the “hard” effects of protection with the empirical structural gravity model. Specifically, we argue that the difference between the estimates of border indicator...
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