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We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby … inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature. These …
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The latest, and internationally controversial, issue relating to trade and human rights is that of labor standards. It … has surfaced in international fora including the World Trade Organization (WTO). I will focus exclusively on this issue in … political problems associated with using trade policy as an instrument for enforcing human rights. …
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trade area to compensate for the loss of welfare due to the formation of the original union. …
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In this study, we look at the relationship between export stability, investment and economic growth in nine Asian countries using time series data. The few previous time series studies in this area have not paid any attention to stationarity and cointegration issues. We find that in most cases,...
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This paper the presents pattern and determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in Australian manufacturing since the … trend in IIT suggests that the short-term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalisation are likely to be lower, and … investigated. Results indicate that intra-industry trade is positively related to product differentiation and scale economies, and …
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trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of …
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This paper considers the economic sanctions that were applied in the mid-1980s to pressure the South African government to end apartheid. It asks what role those sanctions played in the eventual demise of the apartheid regime and concludes that the role was probably very small. An alternative...
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trade expansion. Specifically, we present a stages-of-growth model in which the four phenomena are jointly endogenous and …
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This paper considers a small open economy where an input-output industrial structure, scale economies and imperfect competition, create vertical linkages and multiple equilibria. In this environment, an imperfect labor market is introduced by assuming unionized labor. It is shown that if the...
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rounds of multilateral negotiations under its auspices for reductions of trade barriers culminating in the URA in 1994. …
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