Suchergebnisse
Filter
27 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
NAFTA and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 239-244
ISSN: 1541-0072
The "Pollution Haven Hypothesis" is the prediction that trade liberalization will lead to the movement of polluting industries from high income/stringent environmental regulation countries to low income/lax environmental regulation countries. This prediction has led to concerns that NAFTA would be an environmental disaster for Mexico. The three articles included in this collection investigate the post‐NAFTA environmental performance of Mexico using both aggregate data on pollution emissions as well as firm‐level data on environmental abatement efforts. In this article, I summarize the contribution in the context of the trade/environmental literature and provide some suggestions for future work.
NAFTA and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 239-244
ISSN: 0190-292X
International Coordination of Trade and Domestic Policies
In: American economic review, Band 91, Heft 5, S. 1580-1593
ISSN: 1944-7981
Decomposing the effect of trade on the gender wage gap
In: The Canadian journal of economics: the journal of the Canadian Economics Association = Revue canadienne d'économique, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 1082-1120
ISSN: 1540-5982
AbstractThis paper uses variation in exposure to increased Chinese imports in Brazil to investigate the impact of trade on gender wage inequality. First, using Brazilian census data, we find that rising imports reduced the gender wage gap in Brazilian local labour markets. Next, using Oaxaca–Blinder decompositions, we show that this reduction in the wage gap was largely explained by trade increasing the share of female workers in higher‐paying occupations. Finally, we use a matched employer–employee data set to investigate how individual workers adjust to the trade shock. Similar to the local labour market analysis, we find that male workers exposed to increased import competition saw a larger decline in both wages and cumulative earnings relative to female workers. In addition, we uncover an interesting asymmetry in that, while male workers exhibited much higher degrees of industry mobility in response to the trade shock, female workers exhibited an equal if not higher degree of occupational mobility.
Equity-Efficiency Tradeoffs in International Bargaining
SSRN
Working paper
Decomposing the Effect of Trade on the Gender Wage Gap
SSRN
Working paper
Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System
With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in reducing conventional tariff barriers, much of the recent focus of regional and multilateral trade agreements has switched to non-tariff measures, both border and behind-the-border policies. This paper considers the recent empirical and theoretical literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non-tariff measures and reviews the key methods used to estimate their trade impact. It considers the theoretical treatment of these measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It discusses some of the major issues regarding international cooperation in these policy areas, in particular whether such cooperation should entail deep integration (involving precise legally binding obligations) or shallow integration (which allows countries greater discretion in the setting of non-tariff measures). Finally, this paper reviews some of the specific features the World Trade Organization uses in dealing with non-tariff measures such as national treatment rules and non-violation complaints, and considers policy options beyond the WTO such as harmonization and mutual recognition of standards.
BASE
Technology adoption, government policy and tariffication
In: Journal of international economics, Band 90, Heft 2, S. 337-347
ISSN: 0022-1996
Domestic Policies, Hidden Protection and the GATT/WTO
SSRN
Working paper
Infant industry protection and industrial dynamics
In: Journal of international economics, Band 84, Heft 1, S. 37-47
ISSN: 0022-1996
The liberalization of trade and foreign direct investment: a political economy analysis
In: Journal of economic policy reform, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 225-240
ISSN: 1748-7889
Reconsidering the empirical evidence on the Grossman‐Helpman model of endogenous protection
In: The Canadian journal of economics: the journal of the Canadian Economics Association = Revue canadienne d'économique, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 501-516
ISSN: 1540-5982
Abstract. The emergence of the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model of endogenous protection as the preëminent model in the political economy of trade literature has been significantly advanced by the finding that its predictions about the cross‐industry pattern of protection are broadly consistent with the data. However, in their empirical implementation of the Grossman‐Helpman model, researchers have assumed the presence of multiple policy instruments and extraneous political factors. We argue that incorporating these assumptions into the theory significantly changes its predictions about the cross‐industry pattern of protection. JEL classification: F1
Endogenous firm heterogeneity and the dynamics of trade liberalization
In: Journal of international economics, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 422-440
ISSN: 0022-1996