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COVID 19 Crisis : Economic Stimulus, International Trade and Environmental Sustainability

Mulchandani, Poonam - 2020

The short-term impact of COVID-19 on the environment is positive, as with the shutdown of economic activity carbon emissions have dropped. Once the crisis is over, emissions and environmental externalities are likely to rebound. Further, if the stimulus packages announced by the government are...

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Online Mingling : Supporting Ad Hoc, Private Conversations at Virtual Conferences

Song, Jaeyoon - 2020

Even though many people have found today's commonly used videoconferencing systems very useful, these systems do not provide support for one of the most important aspects of in-person meetings: the ad hoc, private conversations that happen before, after, and during the breaks of scheduled...

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Trading Places, Trading Platforms : The Geography of Trade Policy Realignment

Schonfeld, Bryan - 2020

What motivates politicians and political parties to shift their positioning on an issue? Focusing on the case of trade policy in advanced plurality countries, I argue that the relative positioning of parties on an existing issue can change even when the preferences of the key actors (voters and...

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Engel's Law in the Global Economy : Demand-Induced Patterns of Structural Change, Innovation and Trade

Matsuyama, Kiminori - 2020

Endogenous demand composition across sectors due to nonhomothetic demand (Engel's Law) affects i) sectoral compositions in employment and in value-added, ii) variations in innovation rates and in productivity change across sectors, iii) intersectoral patterns of trade across countries, and iv)...

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Promoting Labour Rights in the Global Economy : Could the United States' New Model Trade and Investment Frameworks Advance International Labour Standards in Bangladesh?

Brown, Ronald C. - 2020

This paper analyzes emergent U.S. bilateral trade and investment frameworks, specifically its Model Free Trade Agreement (“FTA”) and Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (“BIT”), with respect to labor provisions and relative enforcement mechanisms, which will likely be enveloped in any...

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Trading Foreign Exchange Triplets

Cartea, Álvaro - 2020

We develop the optimal trading strategy for a Foreign Exchange (FX) broker who must liquidate a large position in an illiquid currency pair. To maximize revenues, the broker considers trading in a currency triplet which consists of the illiquid pair and two other liquid currency pairs. The...

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Economic Development and the Margins of Trade : Are the Least Developed Countries Different?

Mora, Jesse - 2020

We use the Exporter Dynamics Database to identify differences in the margins of export growth for three country groups: high-income, middle-income, and least developed countries. The growing literature on trade dynamics suggests that economic development comes with trade growth on two margins --...

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Synchronization of Business Cycles and the Extensive Margin of Trade

Santacreu, Ana Maria - 2020

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Real Economics in Virtual Worlds : A Massively Multiplayer Online Game Case Study: Runescape

Bilir, Tanla E. - 2020

-playing game, RuneScape. In particular, it examines the similarities and differences between the virtual economics and real world … real world economics, player perceptions of virtual and real world economy are surprisingly complex, and virtual worlds can … be used to study real world economics. Game developers, players, economists, educators, researchers, and individuals who …

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Looking Forward : The Economic and Trade Environment in the First Decades of the 21st Century

Ciuriak, Dan - 2020

been phenomenal. Somewhere in the mid-1990s, the world economy (and its political economy) seems to have taken a blind … Bretton Woods era (after World War II to the early 1970s) was stunningly different from the period between the world wars …

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