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The Global Chilling Effects of Antidumping Proliferation
Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zanardi, Maurizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Advocates of antidumping (AD) laws downplay their effects by arguing that the trade flows that are subject to AD are …
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The New Goods Margin in Japanese-Chinese Trade
Dalton, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account … for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of Chinese exports to Japan after trade liberalization. For the case of … Chinese exports to Japan, a time series measure shows the growth in new goods coincides with the timing of the trade …
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A Green Light for Environment, or a Green Light for Protection? The EU-US Dispute Over US Corporate Average Fuel Economy Regulations
Francois, Joseph; Nordström, Håkan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
The US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation mandates, subject to a civil penalty, producers to achieve a certain fleet average fuel economy on sales of new passenger cars. Analysing the incentive effects of CAFE, we find that it affords differential tax treatment to car models with...
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A matching approach to study the impact of agoa on Sub-Saharan African countries
Cooke, Edgar F. A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The impact of the USA's agoa preferences on SSA countries is studied using a matching approach. The results indicate that agoa beneficiaries have exported less to the USA compared to their matched controls. However, this has not been the case for their exports to the EU which has seen a higher...
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The Price Stabilisation Effects of the EU import regime of fruit and vegetables: the case of tomatoes
Cioffi, Antonio; Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Vitale, Cosimo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper assesses the stabilization effects of the EU import regime for fresh fruit and vegetables based on the entry price system. The analysis is carried out on the EU prices of tomatoes and those of imports from Morocco, the main competing country on the EU domestic markets. It is based on...
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Why are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist than Others?
Mayda, Anna Maria; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We analyse a rich cross-country data set that contains information on attitudes toward trade as well as a broad range of socio-demographic, and other, indicators. We find that pro-trade preferences are significantly and robustly correlated with an individual's level of human capital, in the...
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Do trade preferential agreements enhance the exports of developing countries? Evidence from the EU GSP
Aiello, Francesco; Demaria, Federica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The EU grants preferential access to its imports from developing countries under several trade agreements. The widest arrangement, in terms of country and product coverage, is the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) through which, since 1971, virtually all developing countries have received...
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Tariff Peaks in the Quad and Least Developed Country Exports
Hoekman, Bernard; Ng, Francis; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Although average tariffs in Quad markets are very low, tariff peaks and tariff escalation have a disproportional effect on exports from least developed countries (LDCs). Tariff peak products tend to be heavily concentrated in agriculture and food products and in labour-intensive sectors such as...
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Rethinking Trade Preferences: How Africa Can Diversify its Exports
Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper argues that the contribution of trade preferences to economic development needs to be reappraised in light of the growth of globalized trade in manufactures. Trade preferences may be able to act as a catalyst for manufacturing exports, leading to rapid growth in exports and...
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Assessing Euro-Med trade preferences: the case of entry price reduction
Martinez-Gomez, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The EU protects some of its fruits and vegetables through the entry price system. This system consists on a two-tiered tariff, with high-priced exports paying an ad valorem tariff, whereas low-priced exports pay also a supplementary specific tariff. The breaking point between high and low export...
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