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  • 11 Sep 2017
  • Video

Are Carbon Tariffs Protectionism or Climate Policy?

    Are Carbon Tariffs Protectionism or Climate Policy?

    Some argue that carbon tariffs — carbon costs imposed on imports entering an emission-regulated region — are simply protectionism being peddled as climate policy. Our results suggest otherwise. The implementation of a carbon tariff decreases global emissions... View Details

    • April 1983 (Revised December 1984)
    • Background Note

    Note on Free Trade and Protectionism

    By: David B. Yoffie
    Keywords: Trade
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    • 23 Oct 2017

    Are Carbon Tariffs Protectionism or Climate Policy?

    • 2017
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Latin America's Options for Times of Protectionism

    By: Laura Alfaro, Guillermo Calvo, Alberto Carrasquilla, Augusto de la Torre, Roque Benjamin Fernandez, Pablo Guidotti, Enrique Mendoza, Guillermo Perry and Liliana Rojas-Suarez
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    • 2017
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Latin America's Policy Options for Times of Protectionism

    By: Laura Alfaro, Guillermo Calvo, Alberto Carrasquilla, Augusto de la Torre, Roque Benjamin Fernandez, Pablo Guidotti, Enrique Mendoza, Guillermo Perry and Liliana Rojas-Suarez
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Trade and the Single Car Market: The EC-Japan Elements of Consensus, 1985–1999

    By: Grace Ballor
    In 1991, in the midst of the program to create a liberal Single European Market and in the context of a new Joint Declaration for cooperation with Japan, the European Commission brokered a private deal to restrict Japanese imports into the European Community for nearly... View Details
    Keywords: Market; Protectionism; Liberalization; Trade; Markets; International Relations; Auto Industry; Europe; European Union; Japan
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    • December 2, 2012
    • Article

    Firm Organisation: What We Know and Why We Should Care

    By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman
    Keywords: Industrial Organization; International Trade; Firm Organization; Firms; Protectionism; Business Organization; Trade
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    • 10 Jul 2018
    • News

    Trump’s Protectionist Threat to Latin America

    • 28 May 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

    Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
    • 2023
    • Article

    Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987

    By: Sabine Pitteloud
    This article focuses on the establishment in the 1970s of a new international private governance forum, the so-called ‘Interlaken Conferences’, which gathered together the leading figures of the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Neo-Liberalism; Neocorporatism; Coordination; Economic Policy; Business and Government Relations; Labor Unions; Economics; Policy; Europe
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
    We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international outsourcing. Respondents... View Details
    Keywords: Labor; Markets; System Shocks; Trade; Attitudes; Surveys
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    • December 2020
    • Article

    Multinational Firms and the Politics of International Trade in Multidisciplinary Perspective

    By: Grace A. Ballor and Aydin B. Yildirim
    From the technical analyses of wide ranges of scholars to the public discourse backlashes against globalization, there is a huge volume of work historicizing, quantifying, and problematizing the complex role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in international trade.... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Corporations; International Trade; Big Business; Economic Governance; Global Value Chains; Trade Policy; Corporate Regulation; Multinational Firms and Management; Trade; Policy; Governance; Globalization
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      Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours

      Translations available in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, Vietnamese.

      Western concerns about the rise of China and India are raising alarms today, much as they were fifty years ago. China and India currently operate in... View Details

      • Web

      Projects - Business History

      histories of accounting, strategy, international competition, competitive advantage, protectionism and state capitalism, the nature of cross-cultural commercial encounters, and the very long history of emerging markets. The project... View Details
      • 02 Mar 2018
      • Op-Ed

      Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

      investors perceive as a move that will have more disadvantages than benefits for the economy as a whole. Uncertainty ahead More broadly, Trump’s actions pave the way for much uncertainty ahead, since the long history of trade View Details
      Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing
      • 01 Jun 2002
      • News

      Steel Tax

      a period of economic growth. “As things slow down, industries get hurt,” Spar noted. “For individual groups, it's easy to see protectionism as the solution, even though in the long run it becomes part of the problem.” View Details
      • 01 Mar 2011
      • News

      Alumni Books

      protectionism could prevent nations from achieving the gains - in household income, availability of goods and services, and other quality-of-life metrics - of cross-border openness. Ghemawat describes how private businesses, policymakers,... View Details
      • 25 Feb 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

      the automotive industry's growth over the next ten years," said Newman, noting that four of those countries—China, India, Thailand, and South Korea—are in Asia. Protectionism is one of GM's biggest challenges, Newman said, with... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna
      • 23 Jul 2024
      • In Practice

      The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

      cases escalate, tariffs placed on Chinese exports by former President Trump. This move is emblematic of a global turn toward protectionism and trade restrictions in the last decade. Businesses have taken diverse approaches in adapting to... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications