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Foreign Direct Investment and The Ease of Doing Business

Corcoran, Adrian ; Gillanders, Robert (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-07)

This paper examines the effect that a country’s business regulatory environment has on the amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking to capture the costs that ...
A new approach to evaluating trade policy

Anderson, James E. ; Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991-11-25)

This paper introduces a new measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, which measures the restrictiveness of a system of trade protection. The index is a general equilibrium application of the distance function and answers ...
A new approach to evaluating trade reform

Anderson, James E. ; Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988-07)

Dual methods are awkward to use for quota reform analysis. This paper develops a distance function concept (Deaton (1979)) relevant to trade distortions: the Distorted Trade Distance Function. It has the great advantage ...
The silver lining of red tape

Davies, Ronald B. (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-05)

An increasing number of international agreements require “nondiscrimination” from their participants, i.e. the government of one country cannot treat foreign firms differently from domestic firms. This is at odds with a ...
Strategic and rent extracting tariffs in the presence of persuasive advertising

Leahy, Dermot (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-12)

This paper examines positive and normative implications of tariffs in the presence of persuasive advertising. It demonstrates that protection affects imports, the domestic consumer price and the terms of trade directly and ...