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A Method for Calculating Export Supply and Import Demand Elasticities

Author/Editor: Stephen Tokarick.

Release Date:July, 2010

Trade elasticities are often needed in applied country work for various purposes and this paper describes a method for estimating import demand and export supply elasticities withoutusing more...



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Competitiveness in the Southern Euro Area : France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain

Author/Editor: Bogdan Lissovolik, Julio Escolano, Stefania Fabrizio, Werner Schule, Herman Z Bennett, Stephen Tokarick, Yuan Xiao, Marialuz Moreno Badia, Eva Gutierrez, Iryna V Ivaschenko.

Release Date:April, 2008

This collection of studies analyzes developments in nonprice external competitiveness of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. While France, Italy, and Portugal have experienced substantial more...



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Trade Liberalization, Macroeconomic Adjustment, and Welfare : Unifying Trade and Macro Models

Author/Editor: Ehsan U Choudhri, Hamid Faruqee, Stephen Tokarick.

Release Date:December, 2006

Trade liberalization leads to long-run gains, but it can also involve costly short-run macroeconomic adjustment. The paper explores the relative importance of these effects within a dynamic general more...



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Trade Issues in the Doha Round : Dispelling Some Misconceptions

Author/Editor: Stephen Tokarick.

Release Date:August, 2006

The current round of multilateral trade negotiations-the Doha Round-presents an opportunity for countries to reap the benefits of trade liberalization. Unfortunately, a number of misconceptions about more...



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Immiserizing Foreign Aid : The Roles of Tariffs and Nontraded Goods

Author/Editor: Stephen Tokarick.

Release Date:May, 2006

International trade theory has pointed out that factor accumulation could immiserize a country if it is sufficiently biased toward the export sector, or if it is biased toward an importcompeting more...



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Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?

Author/Editor: Stephen Tokarick.

Release Date:January, 2006

This paper points out that while many developing countries seek to increase their export earnings, they have not embraced fully the notion that their own pattern of import protection hurts their more...



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Trade and Growth in the Presence of Distortions

Author/Editor: Stephen Tokarick, James H Cassing.

Release Date:January, 2005

Tariffs and other policy distortions typically lower real national income relative to what it otherwise would have been for any given rate of factor accumulation. Even while lowering real income, more...



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What Do We Know About Tariff Incidence?

Author/Editor: Stephen Tokarick.

Release Date:September, 2004

This paper examines the question: Who bears the larger portion of the excess burden of a tariff-the country that imposes it, or a country that it trades with? For a country that can influence its more...



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Measuring the Impact of Distortions in Agricultural Trade in Partial and General Equilibrium

Author/Editor: Stephen Tokarick.

Release Date:May, 2003

This paper provides quantitative estimates of the impact of removing agricultural support (both tariffs and subsidies) in partial- and general-equilibrium frameworks. The results show that more...



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Quantifying the Impact of Tradeon Wages : The Role of Nontraded Goods

Author/Editor: Stephen Tokarick.

Release Date:November, 2002

This paper uses an applied general equilbrium model to decompose the effects of changes in trade and technology-related variables on wages of skilled and unskilled labor between 1982 and 1996 in the more...



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