Die Wahl Joe Bidens zum nächsten US-Präsidenten wurde innerhalb der internationalen Ge-meinschaft groß gefeiert. Die Geschichte der US-Handelspolitik zeigt, dass es vielen Demokraten gelungen ist, als US-Präsidenten den Handelsliberalisierungsprozess zu beschleunigen. Die Zu-sammenstellung...

Trade regulation can create jobs in the sectors it protects or promotes, but almost always at the expense of destroying a roughly equivalent number elsewhere in the economy. At a product-specific or micro level and in the short term, controlling trade could reduce the offending imports and save...

There are debates regarding the effect of globalization on national economies, and whether or not trade openness has a significant positive or negative influence on economic expansion and development. Thus, this study is aimed at investigating the relationship between trade globalization and...

Quantifying the effects of trade policy in the age of "global value chains" (GVCs) requires an enhanced analytical framework that takes the observed international input-output relations in due account. However, existing quantitative general equilibrium models generally assume that industry-level...

This article focuses on the optimal international trade policy considered product differentiations. A duopoly model with a home firm in a developing country and a foreign firm in a developed country is established. The findings indicate that, the optimal tariff relies on the product...

We consider the effects of protectionist trade policies on international and domestic market integration, using evidence from the long-standing softwood lumber trade dispute between Canada and the United States. The benefits of trade liberalization are widely acknowledged, including better...

Este documento presenta algunas herramientas de política comercial que pueden contribuir a la igualdad de género. Para avanzar en esta política, es importante contar con datos desagregados por sexo para analizar cómo las mujeres podrían ser afectadas por ciertas reglas del comercio. Un...

The views of Keynes on Trade policy are clear: Protectionism as well as hoarding a surplus in the balance of payment are wrong. This paper analyzes the optimality of protectionist policies and having a surplus in the context of the international political system. I show that in the situation of...

We are at the moment, the first in seventy-five years, where there is no international consensus in support of trade. Indeed, trade is unloved, unsupported, and even unwanted. There is no shortage of topics in the rhetoric of trade complaints: from the rapid rise of China to Coronavirus as a...

Der demokratische Herausforderer in der US-Präsidentschaftswahl, Joe Biden, hat das Weiße Haus erobert. Allerdings haben es die Demokraten nicht geschafft, eine klare Mehrheit im Senat zu erringen. Auch im Repräsentantenhaus verloren sie Sitze. Dies schränkt den Gestaltungsspielraum Bidens...

Die amerikanischen Wahlen im November 2020 werden nicht nur für die USA selbst, sondern auch für Europa und Deutschland von hoher Bedeutung sein. Während die transatlantische Kooperation unter der aktuellen Administration gelitten hat, besteht mit einem Regierungswechsel die Chance auf einen...

Many different approaches have developed for the evaluation of non-tariff measures (NTMs) and free trade agreements (FTAs). Moving on from models using simple dummy variables, today a range of databases can capture different aspects of NTMs and FTAs. Some assess the depth of FTAs by extracting...

Starting in the 1960s with the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), nontariff measures (NTMs) have been replacing tariffs continuously as the core element of trade negotiations. Today they take centre stage in all EU trade agreements with industrialised and...

Using data from the World Uncertainty, World Trade Uncertainty, and World Pandemic Uncertainty indices for 142 countries, this paper introduces three new indicators for measuring uncertainty in Turkey's export markets from the first quarter of 1996 to the first quarter of 2020. The indicators...

The principal contribution of this paper is to investigate the relationship between policy uncertainty, caused by recent developments in international markets, and firms' trade margins for the largest economy in Africa: South Africa. In particular, using a unique database on the population of...

The growth of digital trade is dependant upon greater interconnectivity across borders. Several countries strive to achieve such interconnectivity and integration in digital trade through international trade agreements. Digital trade integration is a complex, multidimensional process that...

Rules-based trade is under attack and the WTO is at risk of marginalization. The COVID-19 pan-demic and its detrimental effects on public health, global supply- and value chains and industrial production, have brought back national export restrictions and stopped the free flow of goods and...

Sweden became a member of the European Union (EU) in 1995. Since then, she has been integrated into the EU's internal market under the Single Market Programme (SMP). Before Sweden's accession to the EU, she was a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) signed with the EU in 1972....

Auch wenn die Briten die Europäische Union bereits zum 31. Januar 2020 verlassen haben, ist ein "harter Brexit" insofern noch nicht vom Tisch, als sich die beiden Parteien noch nicht auf ein Abkommen über die künftigen wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen geeinigt haben. Die Verhandlungen haben...

This paper examines the trade participation of Bangladesh's manufacturing firms using a three-year panel. It distinguishes between extensive and intensive margin effects using a Heckman sample selection model. Particular attention is paid to the role of imported intermediates and inward foreign...

The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...

Public sector enterprises (PSEs) have been one of the key drivers of economic development in several countries, including India. While many countries have gradually moved away from the PSE model of growth, in the year 2019, around 25 percent of the Fortune Global 500 companies were PSEs. As...

Im Jahr 2019 importierten deutsche Unternehmen Vorprodukte im Wert von 606 Milliarden Euro, was gut 55 Prozent der gesamten Warenimporte Deutschlands ausmachte. Zwei Drittel der importierten Vorprodukte kamen aus anderen EU-Mitgliedstaaten, weitere 5,3 Prozent bzw. 5,0 Prozent aus den USA und...

The impacts of European agricultural and trade policies on agricultural development and food security in Africa are analyzed in this study. The research is prompted by the pending further development of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020. The proposal for the new CAP is based on...