Download or read book Three Essays on International Trade Policy and Political Economy written by Inderjit Kohli and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Political Economy and International Trade written by Far-tsair Lai and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Three Essays in Political Economy and Trade Policy microform written by Sivaramayya, Neeraja and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on International Agreements on Trade Policies written by Takeshi Yamaguchi and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on International Trade Foreign Influence and Institutions written by Roberto Bonfatti and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in International Trade and Political economy written by Peter Louis Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Political Economy of Trade Policy written by Robert C. Feenstra and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers by former students and colleagues celebrates the profound impact that Jagdish Bhagwati has had on the field of international economics over the past three decades. Bhagwati, who is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics at Columbia University, has made pathbreaking contributions to the theory of international trade and commercial policy, including immiserizing growth, domestic distortions, economic development, and political economy. His success and influence as a teacher and mentor is widely recognized among students at both MIT and Columbia, and as founder of the Journal of International Economics, he has encouraged research on many questions of theoretical and policy relevance. The political economy of trade policy, Bhagwati's most recent area of interest, is the theme of this collection which addresses salient topics including market distortions, income distribution, and the political process of policy-making. Sections and Contributors Market Distortions, T. N. Srinivasan. Paul A. Samuelson. Paul R. Krugman * Trade and Income Distribution, Douglas A. Irwin. Richard A. Brecher and Ehsan U. Choudri. Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon H. Hanson. Earl L. Grinols * Perspectives on Political Economy, Robert E. Baldwin. Peter Diamond * Models of Political Economy and Trade, Gene M. Grossman and Elhana Helpman. John Douglas Wilson. B. Peter Rosendorff. Arvind Panagariya and Ronald Findlay

Download or read book Essays on International Trade and International Political Economy written by Thomas Zylkin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My graduate research has been organized around two main themes: (i) the causes and consequences of trade integration and (ii) the strategic nature of armed conflict. The expansion of international trade over the past sixty years has played a major role is determining the fates of nations, both for better and for worse, and likewise has the potential to shape our futures in ways we need to be able to anticipate. Similarly, the death, destruction, and diversion of productive resources associated with violent conflict continue to present a critical obstacle to shared prosperity. The papers I am presenting as the chapters of my dissertation are representative of the contributions I am interested in making in these important research areas. My research on trade integration spans both the micro-level of what forms trade integration may take as well as higher level concerns about how freer trade will affect both the world economy as well as the individual economies within it. Two chapters of my dissertation, "Beyond Tariffs: Quantifying Heterogeneity in the Effects of Free Trade Agreements" and "Finding the Influence of Communication on Trade" are devoted to this subject. In "Beyond Tariffs", for example, I show, using NAFTA as an empirical case study, that the effects of free trade agreements on individual nations may not be what we might expect to observe ex ante based on tariffs. Relying solely on tariffs to project NAFTA's effects not only greatly underestimates the overall welfare increases for all three NAFTA countries--Mexico's in particular--but also overstates the positive effects of NAFTA on U.S. producer prices. It follows that "heterogeneity" in the effects of free trade agreements, both within and across agreements, may not be well-understood. In "Finding the Influence of Communication", I investigate whether the sharing of a common language promotes trade in a way similar to trade policy and, if so, what the consequences of increased language learning will be for global trade. Most notably, I find the effect of communication in native languages on trade tends to be underestimated in the absence of controls for communication in non-native languages. Surprisingly, while I find strong evidence for the causal impact of foreign language acquisition on manufacturing trade, I do not find similarly strong evidence for services trade. I also find that, unsurprisingly, adding to the world's population of English speakers has by far the largest impact on trade of any major world language. Interestingly, however, when I remove all non-language barriers to trade, I find the forces of geography and history may have greatly impeded the relative appeal of Chinese as a competing global language. The third chapter of my dissertation, "The Problem of Peace: A Story of Corruption, Destruction, and Rebellion", joint with Constantinos Syropoulos, deals with a different kind of question: what are the economic incentives that drive the emergence of destructive conflicts, and of intra-state conflicts ("civil conflicts") in particular? Specifically, we investigate how the central presence of state (fiscal) institutions in civil conflicts generates unique explanations for the emergence of conflict itself. International trade plays an important role in this chapter as well, but mainly as a backdrop for illustrating the unique trade-offs between "peace" and "welfare" that may arise in this context. It is possible for changes in international prices to move in favor of promoting settlements, but such settlements can be associated with (socially wasteful) increases in arming and/or taxation. We also explore, among other things, how limiting the government's fiscal capacity may tilt the balance towards peaceful settlement.

Download or read book Essays in Trade and Political Economy written by Gabriel Angelo B. Domingo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains three essays on two cases of the interaction among government policy, citizen preferences, and economic environment that jointly affect economic outcomes. The first is a theoretical model explaining the economic rationale of GATT/WTO given non-homothetic preferences. The second is an empirical investigation of the effects of decentralized service provision and local government spending on re-election prospects of municipal mayors in the Philippines.The first essay sets up a new trade model and investigates the effects of non- homothetic preferences on production location. In a typical new trade theory model, tariff setting interacts with monopolistically competitive firms to determine the location of production. The vertical differentiation model used here, which is a model similar to Fajgelbaum et al. (2011), features two differentiated goods where an increase in income due to trade policy leads to greater demand for the high quality good and an expansion in the number of its varieties, a feature first introduced in Baldwin (1999). I find that the addition of non-homothetic preferences increases the market access effect present in these models for goods with a positive income effect.The second essay deals with the economic rationale of trade negotiations in the context of GATT/WTO, beginning with the seminal work by Bagwell and Staiger (1999). This chapter investigates the effects of non-homothetic preferences introduced in the first essay on interest group welfare over trade liberalization. I show that protection is preferred for the high quality good due to income effects. Consumption preferences and inequality across countries lead to different preferences between income groups over trade policy, even if trade policy does not lower any group's income. GATT/WTO principles applied to each good separately are insufficient to ensure all parties gain from the trade agreement, or whether all tariffs will be successfully liberalized.The third essay discusses fiscal policy, by decentralized Philippine municipal governments, as a tool to aid in re-elections. Political cycles (or Political Business Cycles, PBC) occur when government policy is manipulated to improve chances of re-election. Previous work suggests that incumbents use fiscal policy this way in several developing countries. Understanding local executives' behavior has implications on governance reforms that seek to make government more responsive. This papers unique contribution to the literature is to control for candidate's political experience and electoral competition. Looking at Philippine municipality income and expenditure accounts, I find strong evidence that increases in local government spending boosts the incumbent mayors vote share after controlling for political experience. The marginal effect of spending on vote share is lower when the incumbent and opposition face more competition. Looking at the composition of spending, I find little evidence that spending on health and education is associated with electoral gains, while spending on salaries and maintenance is associated with higher vote shares for the incumbent. In a cross-section of municipalities, I include campaign spending by incumbent and opposition candidates as a direct measure of political competition. I find that the fiscal policy remains important, and that campaign spending's effects on election results are as predicted by theory.

Download or read book Three Essays in International Trade Policy written by Michael Allen Webb and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in International Economics and Political Economy of Trade Policy written by Joseph Jiacong Mai and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in International Trade and Uncertainty written by Richard Edward Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in the Political Economy of International Trade and Economic Growth written by William R. Hauk and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in the Political Economy of Trade Policy written by Devashish Mitra and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing the International System Over the Next Ten Years written by Bill Emmott and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of the three individual essays in this book reflect on the challenges, over the next ten years or so, of managing the international system and of democratic industrialized societies in that system. These essays have helped frame a re-examination within the Trilateral Commission of the underlying rationale and needed directions of its work. Bill Emmott argues that "the future is defined more by disorder and obscurity than by order and clarity, and that policies must be shaped accordingly to be agile and to deal with a range of potential dangers.... [The] Trilateral alliance has a role to play that is, if anything, even more crucial in this disordered future." For the reforms needed in Japan, Koji Watanabe contends, "Japan has to be all the more international, all the more engaged and active in the shaping of the international setting within which domestic reform has to take place." Cooperation among advanced industrial democracies will continue to "form an important pillar" for Japan within "multilayer networks of bilateral, regional and functional cooperation." Comparing the current period to the end of the last century, a time of unwarranted complacency about the international order, Paul Wolfowitz argues that the foreign policy stakes for the United States and the other industrialized democracies remain very large: "If we can sustain Trilateral cooperation, we will have a strong base from which to tackle the specific challenges we face."

Download or read book The Political Economy of International Trade written by Ronald W. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: