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    Prospects of trade expansion in the SAARC region
    (1992) Aggrawal, Mangat Ram; Pandey, Posh Raj
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    Who bears incidence of import protection? evidence from Sri Lanka
    (1990-09) Navaratne, N.R.C.
    A simple general equilibrium model is employed to measure the incidence of protection. This model focuses on the internal relative price effects of protection through the equilibrium conditions of non-traded goods market. The incidence parameter, true protection rates and income transfers resulting from protection. The model is applied to Sri Lankan data. The results indicate that a high proportion of all trade interventions operate as an implicit export tax, that true protection rates to both import-competing sectors are far below the nominal rates of assistance being provided to them, and that income loss to exporters is about 4 per cent of GDP. We conclude that the incidence of protection fails mostly on the Sri Lankan exporters.
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    The analysis of mergers
    (2023)
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    A north american free trade agreement: analytical issues and a computational assessment
    (1991-10) Brown, Drusilla K.; Deardorff, Alan V.; Stern, Robert M.
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    Trade, competition & multilateral competition policy
    (CUTS centre for international trade, 2000) Mehta, Pradeep S.; Kumar, Ujjwal
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    Impact of liberalisation on foreign investment
    (1991-09) Sirisena, N.L
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    Will labour intensive industries always locate in labour abundant countries?
    (1998-03) Amiti, Mary
    The purpose of this paper is to analyse how trade liberalization affects location decisions of firms in vertically linked industries with different factor intensities. Firms can choose to locate either in a low wage, labour abundant country or a low rental capital abundant country. We derive a number of results. At high levels of trade costs upstream and downstream firms locate in both countries. At low levels of trade costs location is according to comparative cost, with labour intensive firms locating in the low wage country and capital intensive firms in the low rental country. For some intermediate levels of trade costs there may be an agglomeration of upsteram and downstream firms in one country. Whether the industries agglomerate in the low wage or the rental country is likely to depend on the relative differences in factor prices.
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    Terms of trade and manufactured exports from developing countries
    (Latrobe University, 1992-05) Athukorala, Premachandra
    This paper examines the empirical validity of the singer hypothesis that,owing to certain country specific disadvantages, the net barier terms of trade (NBTT) for exports of manufactures from developing countries (ICs) tend to experience secular deterioration favouring the importing industrialised countries.(ICs). We estimate Irend rates of NBTT for manufactured exports from all DCs as well as from India, Korea and Taiwan, by applying an econometric procedure designed to avoid the problem of spurious trend estimation to a carefully assembled data set which avoids many pitfalls in the data used in previous studies. The results overwhelmingly reject the hypothesis and suggest that the shift away from primary commodities and towards manufactured goods in their export composition has allowed DCs to escape unequal exchange relations in their trade with ICs.