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Internal Trade in Canada : case for liberalization /

This paper assesses the costs of internal trade barriers and proposes policies to improve internal trade. Estimates suggest that complete liberalization of internal trade in goods can increase GDP per capita by about 4 percent and reallocate employment towards provinces that experience large product...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Alvarez, Jorge (Autor), Krznar, Ivo (Autor), Tombe, Trevor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, [2019]
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/19/158.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Interprovincial Versus International Trade; III. Estimating Internal Trade Barriers; IV. What are the Gains From Liberalizing Internal Trade?; V. Policy Discussion; VI. Conclusion; References; Tables; 1. Costs of Trade Barriers by Sector; 2. Costs of Trade Barriers by Provinces; 3. Dynamics of Costs of Non-geographic Trade Barriers; 4. Trade Agreements and Trade Barriers; 5. Trade Growth Decomposition; 6. Gains from Observed Trade Relative to Autarky, 2015; 7. Gains from Eliminating Non-Geographic Trade Barriers for Goods, 2015; Figures
  • 1. Interprovincial and International Trade2. Real GDP Gains from Individually Liberalizing Industries; Appendixes; I. Data Description; II. Robustness of the Results to Alternative Elasticities