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Trade Barriers or Catalysts ? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins (Английский)

This paper empirically examines how standards and technical regulations affect export margins in three African countries at the firm level. The approach involves combining detailed customs transaction...

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

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...

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

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...

Barrier or Opportunity ? How Trade Regulations Shape Colombian Firms’ Export Strategies (Английский)

Firms increasingly must contend with trade regulations to access foreign markets. This paper quantifies the relative importance of trade regulations and their heterogeneous effects for Colombian firms...

Trading Towards Sustainability : The Role of Trade Policies in Indonesia’s Green Transformation - Executive Summary (Английский)

Climate change - and efforts to mitigate and adapt to it - will affect global flows of trade and Indonesia’s ability to transition to a more environmentally sustainable economy on its path to become a...

Trading Towards Sustainability : The Role of Trade Policies in Indonesia’s Green Transformation (Английский)

Climate change - and efforts to mitigate and adapt to it - will affect global flows of trade and Indonesia’s ability to transition to a more environmentally sustainable economy on its path to become a...

Fertilizer Import Bans, Agricultural Exports, and Welfare : Evidence from Sri Lanka (Английский)

In May 2021, Sri Lanka’s government imposed an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizer imports. This paper leverages this natural experiment to quantify the costs of a lack of access to fertilizer for agricultural...

Firms in Global Value Chains during Covid-19 : Evidence from Indonesia (Английский)

Using detailed monthly firm-level trade data from Indonesia from February 2019 to June 2021, this paper shows that firm-level exports were overall more resilient than imports during Covid-19. Firms that...

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

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...

Improving tariff revenue mobilization in Georgia (Английский)

This is a presentation on improving tariff revenue mobilization in Georgia.

Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems : Chapter 9 : Assessing the Performance of Social Protection Delivery Systems (Английский)

The Sourcebook synthesizes real-world experiences and lessons learned of social protection delivery systems from around the world, with a particular focus on social and labor benefits and services. It...

Estimating the Economic and Distributional Impacts of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (Английский)

This paper applies a top-down, macro-micro modeling framework that links a computable general equilibrium model with the survey-based global income distribution dynamics model to assess the economic and...

Non-Tariff Measures, Import Competition, and Exports (Английский)

The empirical evidence on the impact of import competition on economic performance relies mainly on import tariff liberalization as the source of changes to competition. This paper extends this evidence...

The Macroeconomy After Tariffs (Английский)

What does the macroeconomy look like in the aftermath of tariff changes? This study estimates impulse response functions from local projections using a panel of annual data that spans 151 countries from...

Gain without Pain ? Non-Tariff Measures, Plants’ Productivity and Markups (Английский)

This paper studies how productivity and markups respond to non-tariff measures. The analysis uses a novel time-varying data set on all non-tariff measures applied to imported products by Indonesia. Price...

Actual and Potential Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific : Estimated Effects (Английский)

This paper assesses and compares the economic impacts of four actual and potential free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region: the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership...

Trade Cost Analysis for Somalia​ (Английский)

The document collection discusses a trade cost analysis for a specific region in September 2020. The focus is on the potential impact of tariff and declared values harmonization on trade diversion between...

Lao People's Democratic Republic - Lao PDR Trade Development Facility 2 (Английский)

Africa - APEI Regional DPO (RI) (Английский)

Taking Another Look at Policy Research on China's Accession to the World Trade Organization (Английский)

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China in the 1980s and 1990s. These reforms created the preconditions for accession and...