Browsing FGV EPGE - Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças by Subject "Política comercial"
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Barriers to trade: barriers to growth
1997-10-23We study the cxtent to which differences in international trade policies contribute to the significant cross-country disparities in macroeconomic performance. In particular, wc concentrate on the effect of protectionism ... -
The effects of longevity and distortions on education and retirement
2005-06-02This article studies the impact of longevity and taxation on life-cycle decisions and long-run income. Individuals allocate optimally their total lifetime between education, working and retirement. They also decide at each ... -
Equivalência ricardiana: evidência empírica para o caso do Brasil
2006-02-17Este trabalho tem por objetivo principal avaliar a existência de equivalência ricardiana no Brasil. Para isto, empregam-se três metodologias distintas. Inicialmente, com base no modelo de Enders e Lee (1990), utilizam-se ... -
Feasible multilateralism and the effects of regionalism
2004-07-22Recent research has underlined the efficiency of the GATT/WTO rules from the standpoint of politically motivated governments, emphasizing that the current multilateral rules are capable of delivering a politically efficient ... -
Measuring the TFP costs of barriers to trade
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Monopoly power and trade protection: cross- industry evidence
2000-08-10This paper investigates the impact of industry concentration on trade policy. Annual panel-databases of Brazilian industries for the years 1988 through 1994 were used. The regressions reported here are robust to openness ... -
New evidence on trade liberalization and productivity growth
2001-08-28Although the subject of a large number of studies, the debate on the links between trade reform and productivity growth is still unresolved and most studies at the micro level have not been able to establish a relationship ... -
On the use (fulness) of CGE modelling in trade negotiations and policy
2004-08This paper discusses a series of issues related to the use and different possible applications of CGE modelling in trade negotiations. The points addressed range from practical to methodological questions: when to use the ... -
Rent dissipation, political viability and the strategic adoption of free trade agreements
2002-02-26This paper studies the political viability of free trade agreements (FTAs). The key element of the analysis is the 'rent dissipation' that these arrangements induce: by eliminating intra-bloc trade barriers, an FTA reduces ... -
Sustainable miracles: protection and competition in the Brazilian oil industry
2005-06-09It is often suggested that competition improves productivity, however, the underlying support for this idea is surprisingly thin. This paper presents a case study examining the e ects of a change in the competitive environment ... -
Trade barriers and productivity growth: cross-industry evidence
1999-03-01This article investigates the impact of trade protection on the evolution of labor productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) of the Brazilian manufacturing sector. An annual panel-dataset of 16 industries for the ... -
Trade Liberalization and Regional Impacts on Residual Wage Inequality: Evidence from Brazil
2013-06-12The aim of this paper is to understand more about the role of trade liberalization on wage inequality, more precisely, on the residual wage inequality. Using the Brazil- ian trade openness, the large tari cuts that occurred ... -
Trade policy in a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model
2016-03-31The Import Substitution Process in Latin Amer ica was an attempt to enhance GDP growth and productivity by rising trade barriers upon capital-intensive products. Our main goal is to analyze how an increase in import tariff ...
