| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25762 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25762 |
| Trade Wars: What do they Mean? Why are they Happening Now? What are the Costs? | |
| Aaditya Mattoo; Robert W. Staiger | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-04-22 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? In this paper we offer an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that typically offered by economic commentators. More charitable, because we argue that it is possible to see a logic to these actions: the United States is initiating a change from “rules-based” to “power-based” tariff bargaining and is selecting countries with which it runs bilateral trade deficits as the most suitable targets of its bargaining tariffs. Less forgiving, because the main costs of these trade tactics cannot be avoided even if they happen to “work” and deliver lower tariffs. Rather, we show that the main costs will arise from the use of the tactics themselves, and from the damage done by those tactics to the rules-based multilateral trading system and the longer-term interests of the United States and the rest of the world. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25762 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583436 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Aaditya Mattoo,Robert W. Staiger. Trade Wars: What do they Mean? Why are they Happening Now? What are the Costs?. 2019. |
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| w25762.pdf（231KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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