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作者：Jones, RW; Beladi, H; Marjit, S
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Dayton; University of Rochester
摘要：In this paper we suggest that factor intensities have more than one face and care must be taken in the comparisons chosen. Among other things, we illustrate that in the multi-country, multi-commodity case, a capital-abundant country's export can easily be more labor-intensive than its import-competing sector. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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作者：Buffie, EF
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：In this paper I show that the optimal tariff cut is usually on the order of 50-80% even when liberalization is completely lacking in credibility and policy makers subscribe to the very conservative maximin criterion. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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作者：Williams, RC
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Most studies of the welfare impacts of trade policy have ignored interactions between these policies and pre-existing distortions from the income tax. This paper demonstrates that when these interactions are taken into account, the potential gains or losses from tariffs, import quotas, or voluntary export restrictions are significantly magnified. However, as long as the trade barrier doesn't generate rents for domestic households, the optimal level of the trade barrier is unchanged from the fi...
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作者：Rauch, JE; Feenstra, RC
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of California System; University of California Davis
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作者：Levinsohn, J
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper investigates employment patterns in Chile following a substantial trade liberalization. The paper examines patterns of job creation and job destruction and relates these patterns to firms' size and trade orientation. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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作者：Smith, PJ
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper assesses whether, how, and to what extent U.S. exports are sensitive to national differences in patent rights. I estimate bilateral trade equations that account for trade distortions related to patent rights using data on state-to-country manufacturing exports in 1992. I find that weak patent rights are a barrier to U.S. exports, but only to countries that pose a strong threat-of-imitation (e.g. China). The stronger patent rights required under the WTO agreement increase U.S. export...
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作者：Bayoumi, T; Coe, DT; Helpman, E
作者单位：International Monetary Fund; Harvard University
摘要：We examine the growth promoting roles of R&D, international R&D spillovers, and trade in a world econometric model. A country can raise its total factor productivity by investing in R&D. But countries can also boost their productivity by trading with other countries that have large 'stocks of knowledge' from their cumulative R&D activities. We use a special version of MULTIMOD that incorporates R&D spillovers among industrial countries and from industrial countries to developing countries. Our...
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作者：LeBaron, B
作者单位：Brandeis University
摘要：There is reliable evidence that simple rules used by traders have some predictive value over the future movement of foreign exchange prices. This paper will review some of this evidence and discuss the economic magnitude of this predictability. The profitability of these trading rules will then be analyzed in connection with central bank activity using intervention data from the Federal Reserve. The objective is to find out to what extent foreign exchange predictability can be confined to peri...
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作者：Gereffi, G
作者单位：Duke University
摘要：This article uses a global commodity chains perspective to analyze the social and organizational dimensions of international trade networks. In linking international trade and industrial upgrading, this article specifies: the mechanisms by which organizational learning occurs in trade networks; typical trajectories from assembly to OEM and OEM export roles; and the organizational conditions that facilitate industrial upgrading moves such as the shift from assembly to full-package networks. The...
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作者：Dinopoulos, E; Segerstrom, P
作者单位：Michigan State University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This paper develops a specific-factor variant of the 'quality ladders' model without the scale effect property. We analyze the dynamic effects of contingent tariffs that are imposed on imports whenever domestic firms lose their global technological leadership positions to foreign firms. Small 'rent-extracting' contingent tariffs do not benefit domestic firms that fall behind and are negatively related to the global rate of technological change in the short run. Large 'protective' contingent ta...
