Research Catalog

Title

Sizing up U.S. export disincentives / J. David Richardson.

Author

Richardson, J. David.

Publication

Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics, 1993.

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Description

xii, 182 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Alternative Title

• Sizing up US export disincentives.
• Sizing up United States export disincentives.

Subject

• Export controls > United States
• Foreign trade regulation > United States
• Competition, International
• United States > Commercial policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index.

Contents

• Overview. Background. Contents -- 1. Exports and American Competitiveness. Data Profile. Why Are Exports Important? So Are Some Export Patterns Better Than Others? Are Sales from Overseas Affiliates Just as Good? Important Caveats and Distinctions -- 2. Characterizing US Export Disincentives: The Issues. Definitions and Taxonomy. Archetypical US XDs. Further Distinctions. Summing Up XDs: Additionality and Avoidability. Additionality and Offsets: Some Illustrations -- 3. The Commentators' Catalog of US Export Disincentives. Consensus XDs. Controversial XDs. Neglected XDs -- 4. Estimates and Issues from Numerical Approaches. Numerical Estimates from Previous Studies. Generic Order-of-Magnitude Estimates from Numerical Simulations. A Notoriously Inscrutable Illustration: Officially Supported Export Credits. Avoidability, Additionality, and the Numerical Approaches -- 5. Estimates and Issues from Econometric Approaches. The Approaches in General and Antecedents.
• Approach No. 1: Demand-Constricting XDs and US Export Variation across Trading Partners. Approach No. 2: Cost-Inflicting XDs across 50 States. Avoidability, Additionality, and the Econometric Approaches. Summing Up the Sizing-Up Calculations -- 6. Sizing Up the Export Disincentives Enterprise and the Policy Options. The Size and Range of US Export Disincentives. Policy Implications. Was the Enterprise Worthwhile? -- Appendix A "Calibration Counterfactual": Approaches to Simulating Export Disincentives Numerically -- Appendix B Gravity Models of Export Variation Across Trading Partners / Philip J. Ruder -- Appendix C Generalized Factor Endowments Models of Export Variation Across Trading Regions / Pamela J. Smith.

ISBN

• 088132177X (cloth)
• 0881321079 (pbk.)

LCCN

92037854

OCLC

ocm26930008

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