Trade and Production, 1976-99 * (2007)
Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga
This paper is a companion to the database in the Trade and Production CD-ROM. The database contains trade, production and tariff data for 67 developing and developed countries at the industry level...
Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga, Garry Pursell, Maurice Schiff, Isidro Soloaga, David Tarr, ...
Abstract: Exporters ’ performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may base their future transaction decisions upon the information...
Trade, Production, and Protection Database, 1976-2004 (2007)
Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The database described in this article provides researchers with a broad set of data on trade, production, and protection for 28 manufacturing sectors at the three-digit level of the International...
Trade, Production, and Protection Database, 1976-2004 (2007)
Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The database described in this article provides researchers with a broad set of data on trade, production, and protection for 28 manufacturing sectors at the three-digit level of the International...
Export led growth, pro-poor or not? Evidence from Madagascar's textile and apparel industry
Madagascar's textile and apparel industry has been among the fastest growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fueled by low labor costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial...
Efficiency and equity of a marginal tax reform - income, quality, and price elasticities for Mexico
The author investigates the effects of a marginal tax reform on household welfare in Mexico. He estimates the extent to which Mexican households react to changes in prices, and uses the estimates to...
Trade, Production, and Protection Database, 1976--2004
Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga
The database described in this article provides researchers with a broad set of data on trade, production, and protection for 28 manufacturing sectors at the three-digit level of the International...
Information and Export Performance
Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga
Exporters’ performance in a given market may affect their exports to the rest of the world. Importers base their future transaction decisions upon the information revealed by exporter’s...
Exports and information spillovers
Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Exporters'performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may base their future transaction decision on the information revealed by...
Trade reform and household welfare : the case of Mexico
Ianchovichina, Elena, Nicita, Alessandro, Soloaga, Isidro
The authors use a two-step, computationally simple procedure to analyze the effects of Mexico's potentially unilateral tariff liberalization. First, they use a computable general equilibrium model...
Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The authors have prepared this paper as a companion to the Trade and Production database, which contains trade, production, and tariff data for 67 industrial and developing countries at the industry...
Who benefits and how much? : how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry
Nicita, Alessandro, Razzaz, Susan
Exports of textile products originating from Sub-Saharan African countries have grown dramatically in the past decade. Recent trade initiatives, such as the"African Growth Opportunity...
Who benefited from trade liberalization in Mexico? Measuring the effects on household welfare
This study performs an ex-post analysis of the effects of the trade liberalization in Mexico between 1989 and 2000, taking into account regional differences in the Mexican economy. The effects of...
Import demand elasticities and trade distortions
Hiau Looi Kee, Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
To study the effects of tariffs on gross domestic product (GDP), one needs import demand elasticities at the tariff line level that are consistent with GDP maximization. These do not exist. The...
Multilateral trade liberalization and Mexican households : the effect of the Doha development agenda
Empirical evidence suggests that global trade reforms are unlikely to produce analogous results across countries, especially when analyzing their effect on poverty. This implies that the analysis of...
Estimating trade restrictiveness indices
Kee, Hiau Looi, Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The objective of this paper is to provide indicators of trade restrictiveness that include both measures of tariff and nontariff barriers for 91 developing and industrial countries. For each country,...
Trade Reform and Poverty: The Case of Mexico
Elena Ianchovichina, Alessandro Nicita, Isidro Soloaga
We use a two-step computationally simple procedure to analyse the effects of Mexico's's potential unilateral tariff liberalisation on real incomes. First, we use the CGE model provided by the Global...
Estimating Import Demand and Export Supply Elasticities
Marcelo Olarreaga, Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita
The objective of this paper is to provide estimates of import demand and export supply elasticities for around 4200 goods (six digit of the Harmonized System) in 117 countries. The empirical...
Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices
Kee, Hiau Looi, Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The objective of this paper is to provide indicators of trade restrictiveness that include both measures of tariff and non-tariff barriers for 91 developing and developed countries. For each country,...
Import Demand Elasticities and Trade Distortions
Kee, Hiau Looi, Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
To study the effects of tariffs on GDP one needs import demand elasticities at the tariff line level that are consistent with GDP maximization. These do not exist. We modify Kohli’s (1991) GDP...
Price elasticities and tax reform in Mexico
Price responses are usually estimated for the average household. However, different households are unlikely to respond in a similar way to movement in prices. Consequently, relying on averages may be...
Avian influenza and the poultry trade
Because of high mortality rates, high rates of contagion, and the possibility of cross-species infection to mammals including humans, high pathogenic avian influenza is a major concern both to...
Import Demand Elasticities and Trade Distortions
Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga
This paper provides a systematic estimation of import demand elasticities for a broad group of countries at a very disaggregated level of product detail. We use a semiflexible translog GDP function...
Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices
Hiau LooiKee, Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga
Studies of the impact of trade restrictiveness on growth, poverty or unemployment are frequent in the academic literature. Few authors, however, provide a precise definition of what they mean by...
Trade Policy, Trade Costs, and Developing Country Trade
Hoekman , Bernard, Nicita, Alessandro
This paper briefly reviews new indices of trade restrictiveness and trade facilitation that have been developed at the World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade...
The price effect of tariff liberalization: Measuring the impact on household welfare
Trade policy literature has for many years emphasized open policies positive impact on economic growth and development. While these results generally hold when measured on averages, empirical...
Who Benefits from Export-led Growth? Evidence from Madagascar's Textile and Apparel Industry†
Fuelled by low labour costs and preferential trade agreements, exports of textile products originating from Sub-Saharan countries have grown dramatically in the last decades. This paper analyses some...
Smoke in the water : the use of tariff policy flexibility in crises
Foletti, Liliana, Fugazza, Marco, Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo
As the economic crisis deepens and widens, fears of a return to the protectionist spiral of the 1930s become more common. However, an important difference between the 1930s and today is the existence...