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Patterns of World Trade in Manufactures: Does Trade Policy Matter?
Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
This paper surveys the broad patterns of world trade in manufactures since about 1960. While the bulk of manufactured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504516
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Exports and Information Spillovers
Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Exporters’ performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may … information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A … world in the next period. Social and ethnic networks seem to reinforce these information spillovers, especially in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497848
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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792213
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Completing the Internal Market in the European Community: Some Industry Simulations
Smith, Alasdair; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
This paper studies the effects of changes in the internal market of the European Community in a partial equilibrium model of imperfect competition with economies of scale. The model is numerically calibrated to data on ten industries and the effects of two types of policy change are simulated....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662157
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Deep Integration, Non-Discrimination and Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade
Hoekman, Bernard; Konan, Denise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Key questions in evaluating the justification for free trade agreements (FTAs) are whether formal international cooperation is necessary to promote greater contestability of markets through harmonization or recognition of regulatory regimes ("deep integration"), and whether any actions taken to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792240
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Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited
Anderson, Kym; Kurzweil, Marianne; Martin, Will; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
both agricultural and non-agricultural policy measures including import or export taxes, subsidies and quantitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498082
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Labour Adjustment Costs and British Footwear Protection
Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
Import protection is frequently advocated as a means of preserving jobs and avoiding labour adjustment costs. Defining adjustment costs in terms of output forgone during the process of adjustment and ignoring any general equilibrium repercussions, we estimate that quantitative restrictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656421
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Network Effects, Standardization, and the Internet: What Have We Learned From The DVD Vs. DIVX Battle?
Dranove, David; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
standardization, that is, left alone the market may fail to achieve standardization when it is socially desirable and (2) even if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666918
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The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis
Chiao, Benjamin; Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper empirically explores standard-setting organizations’ policy choices. Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2006), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792070
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Direct and Indirect Network Effects are Equivalent: A Comment on “Direct and Indirect Network Effects: Are They Equivalent?”
Church, Jeffrey; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
do not, in the case of indirect network effects, make standardization more likely, but (ii) indirect network effects are … associated with excessive standardization. We show in Clements’ framework that neither of these results are correct …: standardization is more likely as the number of software firms increases and when the type of market equilibrium is unique— there are …
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