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Regional adjustment to trade liberalization [PDF]
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1998 Abstract In this paper, I examine the effect of trade reform on regional employment in Mexico. Three factors condition regional labor demand: (1) transport costs, which encourage firms to locate in regions with good access to foreign markets; (2) backward–forward linkages, which encourage firms to locate near buyers and suppliers, and (3 ...
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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Lingkungan Hidup dan Liberalisasi Perdagangan: Upaya Mencari Jalan Tengah
JSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 2007 Trade liberalization has been claimed as one prime mover of environment degradation. This article discusses the contradiction between environment and trade liberalization.
Anna Yulia Hartati
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Globalization’s Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate? [PDF]
This paper uses trade theory to examine the effects of trade liberalization on countries that do not participate in it. These include both countries that fail to participate in multilateral trade negotiations, and also countries that lie outside of ...
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
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Book Review of "David A. Gantz, Liberalizing International Trade after Doha: Multilateral, Plurilateral, Regional, and Unilateral Initiatives " [PDF]
, 2015 The book, providing a broad analysis of trade liberalization initiatives from the inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to 2013, is essential reading for trade lawyers, researchers, and students alike who are interested in getting a glimpse of ...
Malkawi, Bashar H.
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Do Internet‐Driven Trade Shocks Moderate the Exchange Rate Pass‐Through to Inflation?
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the existence of an internet globalisation intensifying impact on the size of the exchange rate pass‐through (ERPT) to inflation, which conditions the response of central banks' policy rates. Expanding on the traditional determinants of ERPT, we incorporate technology‐induced trade shocks linked to internet adoption to ...
Joanna Darwiche, Nicole Ballouz Baker
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Does Regionalism Affect Trade Liberalization Towards Non-Members? [PDF]
We examine the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied MFN tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001.
Antoni Estevadeordal +2 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on income inequality across 24 Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries from 2000 to 2020. Using IV‐Tobit and 2SLS models, we consistently find that greater trade openness significantly exacerbates inequality in the region. Critically, we document an inverted U‐shaped relationship between trade
Guivis Zeufack Nkemgha +2 more
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Liberalizing Agricultural Trade: Will It Ever Be a Reality? [PDF]
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture was signed in June 1994. It accomplished two things: it brought agricultural trade under the rules of WTO, and it set schedules for reducing barriers to trade under the three pillars of ...
McCalla, Alex F.
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Chile: Trade Performance,Trade Liberalization, and Competitiveness
IMF Working Papers, 2008 This paper analyses the evolution of Chile's trade between 1990 and 2007, studying in particular the impact of trade liberalization in addition to traditional price and demand determinants. The results show that export and import flows are mainly responsive to external and domestic demand, and less so to relative prices, although there is a small ...
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