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costs and trade policy cooperation. Tariffs have the effect of attracting foreign direct investment to the benefit of … costs facilitates free trade. This logic is applied to a three-country model to examine cross-sectional relationships. It is … found that if any country is too distant from the others, then global free trade is not attainable. Rather, if two of the …
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impact on bilateral trade, output co-movement and financial integration. Financial integration is measured by the degree of … the greatest effect, the peg regime also significantly boosts trade. We also find that, while the peg regime contributes …
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The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
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The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119296
This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has …’s trade position. …
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Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were … report recommended that the CER rules of origin, which confine access to trade concessions to goods produced in Australia or …
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estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor Force Surveys) with location variables (capital city, rural, etc …
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Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...
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on intercity trade to satisfy the taste for more goods. For the same aggregate population, a system of smaller cities …
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The city size distribution of many countries is remarkably well approximated by a Pareto distribution. We study what constraints this regularity imposes on standard urban models. We find that under general conditions urban models must have (i) a balanced growth path and (ii) a Pareto...
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