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New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries 1960-2001

Kamps, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet empirical analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a small sample of countries. Alternatively, many researchers...

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Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?

Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002

If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non …

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Apertura Comercial y Convergencia Regional en Mexico

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2003

convergencia economica regional en Mexico y los efectos de la apertura comercial. In order to know the effects of trade openess in …

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The role of technology in determining skilled employment: an economywide approach

Laplagne, Patrick; Marshall, Peter; Stone, Susan - EconWPA - 2001

This paper compares the role of technological change with that of trade in explaining the increased demand for skilled …

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Review of TCF Assistance

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues and international trade developments. …

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Though Arrow Says It’s Impossible, It Happens Everyday

Gani, Mohammad - EconWPA - 2004

Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem shows that transitive social preference is impossible. This note shows that in the general case of exchange, social preference need not be transitive. Indeed, it shows that social preference must be non-transitive to allow gainful exchange to maximize social...

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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the …-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in …

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Deforestation and Land Use Changes Induced by the East Asian Economic Crisis

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

East Asia is one of the most important areas of tropical forests worldwide. Considerable concern has arisen that the East Asian economic crisis would result in a further worsening of the already high pressures experienced by the region’s forests. This report examines the available evidence on...

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Intercity Trade and the Industrial Diversification of Cities

Anas, Alex; Xiong, Kai - EconWPA - 2003

The industrial diversification of cities is explained without imposing linkages among industries. In each of two city-industries, a manufacture is produced competitively as the final good using labor and industry- specific differentiated services. Manufacturers import the services of their...

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Lumpy World and Race to the Bottom.

Fabien, Candau - EconWPA - 2005

dispersion - agglomeration configuration when regional and/or international trade are liberalised. Two main results are found …-shaped but strictly decreasing when impediments to trade are removed. This turns out to be a convenient framework to revisit the … links between tax competition, location of firms and trade integration. It is shown in particular that trade liberalization …

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