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Essays On Trade Policy, Ward Reesman
Essays On Trade Policy, Ward Reesman
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This dissertation consists of two essays on international trade and trade policy, focusing on a quantitative evaluation of the causes and consequences of trade barriers and economic integration. In the first essay, I examine the role of a widely-used discriminatory trade barrier in shaping dynamic trade patterns of exporters across a range of affected and unaffected export markets. In the next chapter, I explore the heterogeneous economic determinants impacting the formation of economic integration agreements among countries, paying specific attention to the role of bilateral migration flows.
The first chapter estimates the dynamic trade effects of temporary trade barriers (TTBs), …