Results 1 to 10 of about 2,657,510 (224)
American Economic Review, 2002 International trade occurs in physical space and moving goods requires time. This paper examines the importance of time as a trade barrier, estimates the magnitude of time costs, and relates these to patterns of trade and the international organization ...
David Hummels, Georg Schaur
semanticscholar +6 more sources
Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade [PDF]
WTO Working Papers, 2015 This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level.
Alberto Osnago, R. Piermartini, N. Rocha
semanticscholar +3 more sources
Nontariff Barriers and Trade Liberalization [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 This article shows that governments have no incentive to introduce nontariff barriers (NTBs) when they are free to set tariffs but they do when tariffs are determined cooperatively. Quotas are preferred to antidumping restrictions so that the model is consistent with a progression from using tariffs only to quotas and then to antidumping constraints ...
Simon P. Anderson, Nicolas Schmitt
openalex +7 more sources
Administrative Delays as Barriers to Trade [PDF]
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2006 Abstract We study a two-country model where two firms, one domestic and the other foreign, must decide when to introduce their new product into a market. The home government may apply an import tariff, an administrative delay, or both to the product of the foreign firm.
Pierre Régibeau, Katharine Rockett
openalex +6 more sources
Keiretsu and Relationship‐Specific Investment: A Barrier To Trade? [PDF]
, 2001 This paper develops a model of informal procurement within Japanese keiretsu so as to consider effects on intermediate-good imports, such as auto parts.
Barbara J. Spencer, Larry D. Qiu
openalex +2 more sources
Trade Barriers and Trade Flows across Countries and Industries [PDF]
International Finance Discussion Papers, 1994 We use disaggregated data on trade flows, production, and trade barriers for 41 countries in 1988 to examine the political and economic determinants of non-tariff barriers, as well as the impact of protection (both tariff and non-tariff) on trade flows. We use an econometric framework that allows for the simultaneous detennination of trade barriers and
Jong‐Wha Lee, Phillip Swagel
openalex +5 more sources
ANARCHY AND AUTARKY: ENDOGENOUS PREDATION AS A BARRIER TO TRADE* [PDF]
, 2005 This article presents a general equilibrium two-country Ricardian trade model with endogenous transactions costs that arise from individual utility-maximizing allocation of labor to production and piracy.
James E. Anderson, Douglas Marcouiller
openalex +2 more sources
Subsidies and trade barriers [PDF]
, 2004 Despite the net economic and social benefits of reducing most government subsidies and opening economies to trade, almost every national government intervenes in markets for goods and services in ways that distort international commerce. Those interventions have been reduced considerably over the past two decades, but many remain.
Kym Anderson
openalex +6 more sources
Price Equalization, Trade Flows, and Barriers to Trade [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 In this paper we show that price equalization does not imply zero barriers to trade. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of trade. We demonstrate this first theoretically in
Piyusha Mutreja +3 more
semanticscholar +4 more sources
Administrative barriers to trade
Journal of International Economics, 2015 AbstractWe build a model of administrative barriers to trade to understand how they affect trade volumes, shipping decisions and welfare. Because administrative costs are incurred with every shipment, exporters have to decide how to break up total trade into individual shipments.
Cecília Hornok, Miklós Koren
openalex +3 more sources