Browsing by Subject "manufacturing"

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    Domestic Content Requirements and India’s Solar Mission
    (2013-04-26) Fickling, Meera
    Domestic content requirements are widely-used policies that require a specified proportion of a good to be produced within a certain jurisdiction. Applied to solar cells and modules procured through India's national solar power program, this policy is part of India's strategy to build a domestic manufacturing base for solar components and attain energy independence. However, a loophole in the requirement appears to have undermined its effectiveness. This paper uses a conceptual model and a set of probit and logit regressions to determine the effect of India's domestic content requirement for solar cells and modules on domestic manufacturing and technology choice. It finds that the requirement has done much less to spur domestic manufacturing than the Indian government envisioned.
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    U.S./China Trade Disputes in the post-Recession Political Landscape
    (2013-12-30) Ruby, Ethan
    This paper investigates the connection between the recent economic recession and an increase in trade disputes between the United States and China. Overall, I conclude political factors exacerbated by the recession, rather than economic considerations, were the catalyst for an increase in disputes. Misconceptions by the American public concerning the importance of manufacturing in the U.S. economy, political rhetoric, and fear of China’s rise led the United States to implement a series of economically ill- advised protectionist tariffs on Chinese goods. These tariffs in turn lead to an increase in WTO disputes between the United States and China. Given the severe economic consequences and the growing importance of Sino-American trade relations, it is imperative the United States actively seeks to curb protectionism and reduce trade disputes with China.