Kenneth A. Reinert

Windows on the World Economy : An Introduction to International Economics (2005)

Reinert, Kenneth A.

Obra que plantea en cuatro capítulos una visión de conjunto de la economía internacional. Contiene: Comercio internacional; Producción internacional; Finanzas internacionales; Desarrollo...

The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing: Safeguard Actions from 1995 to 2001 (2002)

Kim, Sung Jae, Reinert, Kenneth A., Rodrigo, G. Chris

The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing is one of the most significant outcomes of the Uruguay Round. While the ATC promises to deliver a significant amount of liberalization during the 1995 to 2004...

The Industrial Pollution Impacts of NAFTA: Some Preliminary Results (2000)

Kenneth A. Reinert

Abstract. In this paper, we use a three-country trade model of the North American economy, along with data from the World Bank’s Industrial

Rural Non-Farm Development: A Trade Theoretic View

Kenneth A. Reinert

A key component of rural development is the growth of production linkages between the farm and non-farm sectors. The growth of these linkages contributes to the development of agricultural clusters...

Rural Non-farm Development: A Trade-Theoretic View.

Reinert, Kenneth A

A key component of rural development is the growth of production linkages between the farm and non-farm sectors. The growth of these linkages contributes to the development of agricultural clusters...

A Detailed Social Accounting Matrix for the USA, 1988.

Reinert, Kenneth A, Roland-Holst, David W

This paper presents the methodology used to construct a highly disaggregated social accounting matrix (SAM) of the United States which integrates data on interindustry flows, value added, imports,...

Social Accounts and the Structure of North American Economy.

Reinert, Kenneth A, Roland-Holst, David W, Shiells, Clinton R

This paper presents the methodology for and results of the construction of a 26-sector social accounting matrix (SAM) for North America. We begin with the construction of three macro-economic SAMs...

World Trade in Used Automobiles: A Gravity Analysis of Japanese and US Exports *

Danilo Pelletiere, Kenneth A. Reinert

We estimate a gravity model of Japanese and US exports of used automobiles that incorporates an original, ordered measure of protection in global, used automobile markets. The model confirms that,...

Armington Models and Terms-of-Trade Effects: Some Econometric Evidence for North America.

Clinton R. Shiells, Kenneth A. Reinert

Elasticities of substitution among U.S. imports from Mexico, Canada, the rest of the world, and competing domestic production are estimated for twenty-two mining and manufacturing sectors, based on...

The Role of Services in the Structure of Production and Trade: Stylized Facts from a Cross-Country Analysis

Francois, Joseph, Reinert, Kenneth A

We examine the role of services in the structure of production and trade. Working with a cross-country sample of 17 social accounting matrices, we develop stylized facts relating upstream and...

THE DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF U.S. TEXTILE AND APPAREL PROTECTION

KENNETH A. HANSON, KENNETH A. REINERT

A number of studies have estimated the effects of U.S. textile and apparel protection. Most of these studies have not addressed the impact of these protective measures on the distribution of...

THE WELFARE AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IMPLICATIONS OF THE U.S. DAIRY QUOTAS

JOSEPH E. FLYNN, KENNETH A. REINERT

This paper examines the welfare and resource allocation implications of the U.S. dairy quotas. A computable general equilibrium model detailing five dairy sectors and nine aggregate sectors is...

A COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ESTIMATION OF THE EFFECTS OF THE U.S. MEAT PROGRAM

GERALD C. BERG, KENNETH A. REINERT

As it does for many domestic industries, the United States protects domestic meat producers from foreign competition by limiting imports. In this paper, the history and operation of the restraints...

The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing: Safeguard Actions from 1995 to 2001

Sung Jae Kim, Kenneth A. Reinert, G. Chris Rodrigo

The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing is one of the most significant outcomes of the Uruguay Round. While the ATC promises to deliver a significant amount of liberalization during the 1995 to 2004...

Trade Liberalization and Income Inequality in India: A Poisson Distributed-Lag Analysis

Vertica AGARWAL, Kenneth A. REINERT, Roger R. STOUGH

This paper addresses the relationship between trade liberalization and income inequality among Indian states using a Poisson distributed-lag analysis. Two measures of income inequality are...

Used automobile protection and trade: Gravity and ordered probit analysis

Danilo Pelletiere, Kenneth A. Reinert

There is a great deal of protection against used automobile imports in many countries of the world that has gone largely unnoticed in the trade policy literature. Indeed, there has been no recent...

Structural Change in the United States: Social Accounting Estimates for 1982-1988.

Reinert, Kenneth A, Roland-Holst, David W

During the 1980s, extensive structural adjustments took place in the U.S. economy. This paper uses estimates of sectorally detailed social accounting matrices to evaluate the changes in receipt and...

North American economic integration and industrial pollution in the Great Lakes region

G. Chris Rodrigo, Kenneth A. Reinert

This paper provides an assessment of the impact of increased economic integration within North America on industrial pollution intensities within the Great Lake states of the United States. It...

Textile and Clothing Safeguards: from the ATC to the Future

Kim, Sung Jae, Reinert, Kenneth A.

The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing established the textile and clothing safeguards regime from 1995 to 2004. The current safeguards regime for these products is defined in terms of the Agreement...

Aggregation and the Welfare Analysis of US Tariffs

Hugh M. Arce, Kenneth A. Reinert

A recurrent concern of researchers who measure the cost of protection is that welfare estimates based on models with highly aggregated sectors of the economy in question will understate the true cost...

Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis

Francois,Joseph F., Reinert,Kenneth A.

Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis provides a comprehensive introduction to the applied economic modeling of trade policies. The book introduces the reader to trade policy concepts, welfare...

Cheap Food and Resource Allocation in Central America

Kenneth A. Reinert

During the 1950-1979 period, the governments of Central America often pursued “cheap-food” policies. A general-equilibrium model is employed to show how these policies contributed to the...