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The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions†

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Political distortions are prevalent in many developing countries, implying substantial productivity losses. This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on political distortions in India.
Sebastian Jävervall, Roza Khoban
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Factors affecting container choice in Turkish maritime exports: A firm-level analysis

METU Studies in Development
We analyze the impact of destination-, firm-, and product-specific factors on the choice of containerization in Turkish maritime exports, using micro-level data. We find that containerization increases when exporting over long distances, to an island, or
K. Türkcan, Hulya Saygili
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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2020
Using simulations from a multi-country neoclassical growth model, we analyze several post-Brexit scenarios. First, the United Kingdom unilaterally imposes tighter restrictions on FDI and trade from other EU nations. Second, the European Uunion retaliates
Ellen R. Mcgrattan, Andrea Waddle
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How Does Import Competition Affect Firm Innovation? Evidence and Mechanism

SAGE Open
This paper examines the impact of import competition on firm innovation in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We find that import competition stimulates innovation, consistent with the “escape-competition effect” from the existing literature.
Yuni Tang, Wei Bu
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Services Trade Under the WTO

Foreign Trade Review
This article studies the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services and the Reference Paper (RP) on telecommunications for the digital transformation of services trade, motivated by the special role assigned to telecommunications as the ...
H. Nordås
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Recent Dispute Settlement Dynamics at the WTO and the Attraction of RTAs

Foreign Trade Review
The multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization (WTO) is experiencing unprecedented stress. The paralysis of the Appellate Body and the rise of unilateral tariff wars have weakened the predictability and authority of multilateral trade
G. Dimitropoulos, I. Althalathini, A. Dashti   +2 more
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Trade Protection Along Supply Chains

Social Science Research Network
We study the effects of trade protection along supply chains. We focus on temporary trade barriers against China, which has been the main target of US trade protection during the last decades.
C. Bown, Paola Conconi, A. Erbahar, Lorenzo Trimarchi   +3 more
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-Level Analysis

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010
To quantify trade frictions, we examine multiproduct exporters. We build a flexible general-equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination data under rich demand and market access cost shocks.
Costas Arkolakis, S. Ganapati, M. Muendler   +2 more
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Trade and Trees: How Trade Agreements Can Motivate Conservation Instead of Depletion

Social Science Research Network
International trade and natural resource exploitation interact in multiple ways. This paper first presents a dynamic game in which the South (S) exploits (e.g., deforests) in order to export (e.g., lumber and agricultural products).
B. Harstad
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The probable impact of policies and policy measures on globalisation

Competitio
This paper aims to identify the impact of the recent economic and non-economic shocks on the globalisation of trade in terms of trade policy and structural openness, and to take a side in the discussion about the reversal, the slowdown, and the ...
M. Losoncz
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