Complements or Substitutes? Preferential and Multilateral Trade Liberalization at the Sectoral Level [PDF]
This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level using a unique dataset that includes data on most favored nation (MFN) and bilateral preferential tariffs at the 4-digit ISIC level for ...
Ando, Mitsuyo +2 more
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Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity ... for Some Plants [PDF]
We weigh into the debate about whether rising productivity is ever a consequence rather than a cause of exporting. Exporting and investing to raise productivity are complimentary activities. For lower-productivity firms, incurring the fixed costs of such
Alla Lileeva, Daniel Trefler
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Who Uses Free Trade Agreements? [PDF]
It is noted that utilization of ASEAN Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) is low by international standards. In order to clarify the reasons for such low utilization, this paper investigates what kinds of Japanese affiliates in ASEAN are more likely to use FTAs
Daisuke HIRATSUKA +3 more
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Trade Sanctions and Green Trade Liberalization [PDF]
This paper studies the impact of a WTO withdrawal of trade concessions against countries that fail to respect globally recognized environmental standards.
Alireza Naghavi
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Communications network design and costing model technical manual [PDF]
This computer model provides the capability for analyzing long-haul trunking networks comprising a set of user-defined cities, traffic conditions, and tariff rates.
Clark, C. A., Logan, K. P., Somes, S. S.
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Overview of the Situation on Photovoltaic Market in Selected Eastern European States [PDF]
, 2011 Purpose of this article Purpose is to research situation on photovoltaic markets in Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary. It is focused on market development, market segmentation and product features.
Meluzínová, Jana, Pavlíček, Michal
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Import Tariffs and Growth in a Model with Habits [PDF]
This paper studies the relationship between tariffs and economic growth in a two-country AK growth model. We find that a sufficiently higher tariff can increase or decrease economic growth, which depends on the levels of productivity coefficients in both
Chen, Been-Lon, Lee, Shun-Fa
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South African Journal of Information Management, 2011 Background: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, are currently facing various financial and other obstacles, which may threaten their survival.
Faeda Mohsam, Pieter A. Van Brakel
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Multilateral Economic Institutions and U.S. Foreign Policy: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Multilateral Int\u27l Dev., Multilateral Insts., & Int\u27l Econ., Energy, & Envtl. Pol\u27y of the S. Comm. on Foreign Relations, 115th Cong., Nov. 27, 2018 (Statement of Jennifer A. Hillman) [PDF]
, 2018 Virtually every major international gathering of world leaders recently has ended in failure—or at least failure to reach enough agreement to issue a concluding statement or communique.
Hillman, Jennifer A.
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The Impact of trade preferences on export prices in the European Union - who captures the preference rent? [PDF]
Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) aim at increasing trade flows via reductions on applied tariffs and the incentives created by the difference between the applied and the most favoured nation (MFN) tariff, the preference margin.
Xavier Cirera
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