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Revisiting the Gains from Trade in EMDEs : The Case of Selected East Asian and East African Economies (anglais)

Following the gains from variety literature, this paper estimates the welfare impact of growth of the variety of imported goods in 28 countries in East Africa and East Asia and compares the results. While...

Geopolitics and the World Trading System (anglais)

Until the beginning of this century, the GATT/WTO system worked. Economic research provided a compelling explanation. It showed that if governments maximize the well-being of their own countries broadly...

Global Ripple Effects : Knock-on Effects of EU, US, and China Climate Policies on Developing Countries’ Trade (anglais)

The three major players in the global economy, the United States, the European Union, and China, have been designing climate mitigation policies that will help reduce their carbon emissions but will also...

High Tariffs, High Stakes : The Policy Drivers behind Firm-Level Adoption of Green Technologies (anglais)

Addressing climate change requires the deployment of green technologies. Using novel transaction-level import data from firms in 35 emerging markets in a firm-level structural gravity model, this paper...

Squaring the Circle : Policies from Europe’s Circular Economy Transition (anglais)

This report reviews Europe’s experience in spearheading CE policy. Its aim is not only to highlight its features and accomplishments, but also identify existing barriers to future progress and key measures...

Trade Policies Mix and Match : Theory, Evidence and the EU-Sino Electric Vehicle Disputes (anglais)

This paper studies the factors affecting governments’ mixed use of tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs) as trade and industrial policies. Results based on detailed bilateral-product-level ad valorem...

High Tariffs, High Stakes : The Policy Drivers behind Firm-Level Adoption of Green Technologies (anglais)

Addressing climate change requires the deployment of green technologies. Using novel transaction-level import data from 35 emerging markets in a firm-level structural gravity model, this paper examines...

Reassessing the Impacts of Exports on Local Labor Market Outcomes : A Supply Chain Perspective — Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt (anglais)

This paper examines the overall impact of exports while accounting for supply chain linkages on local labor market outcomes in the Arab Republic of Egypt between 2007 and 2018. The paper assesses the effects...

Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade (anglais)

Quality regulation has become the dominant instrument of trade policy. Panel evidence shows that regulations classified as sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade both increase...

Early Impacts of Indonesia’s Investment Reforms : A Preliminary Analysis (anglais)

The Indonesian government implemented comprehensive investment reforms in 2021 to encourage investment inflows and related positive impacts. Compared to the previous investment regulation in 2016, the...

Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports (anglais)

Countries with greater commodity export intensity have more concentrated markets for imported goods. Import market concentration is associated with higher domestic prices, suggesting that markups due to...

Revisiting the Trade-Creating Effects of Non-Tariff Barriers (anglais)

Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade. But do existing regional trade agreements actually deliver what they promise? This...

Building a Dataset for Non-Tariff Measures and its Usage : The Case of Indonesia and Applicability for Other Countries (anglais)

As import tariffs have been declining over the past decades, non-tariff measures (NTMs) have become the most frequently used measures in trade policy. The increasing use of NTMs in global trade has highlighted...

Deep Trade Agreements and Heterogeneous Firms Exports (anglais)

This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms’ exports. Using detailed information on the content of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000...

Did the 2018 Trade War Improve Job Opportunities for US Workers ? (anglais)

This paper uses data on the near universe of job adverts posted online in the US to study the impact of the 2018 trade war on US job opportunities. It develops measures of labor market exposure to three...

Scarcity Nationalism during COVID-19 : Identifying the Impact on Trade Costs (anglais)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries used export and import policy as a tool to expand the availability of scarce critical medical products in the domestic market (scarcity nationalism). This paper...

Trade Agreements in South Asia : Towards a Successful Story in the Developing World (anglais)

This paper quantifies the trade creation effects of South Asia’s trade agreements within the region and with the rest of the world. The paper uses an extensive database of bilateral trade covering the...

Official Documents- Amendment No. 2 to the Administration Arrangement with the Government of Australia represented by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for TF072808 (anglais)

Official Documents- Amendment No. 1 to the Administration Arrangement with the Government of Australia represented by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for TF072808 (anglais)

Testing purpose version 1 : post production validation 1 (anglais)

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