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A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk …
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This paper offers a framework to study commitment and cooperation issues in games with multiple policymakers. To reconcile some puzzles in the recent literature on the nature of policy interactions among nations, we prove that games characterized by different commitment and cooperation schemes...
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We consider a model where the central bank faces a credibility problem in its announcements, but also cares about its … credibility and, therefore, wants to make truthful announcements. We show that, although the central bank would be able to …
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paper industry, and the energy and heating sector from 2000 to 2003. The results indicate a hurdle rate of investment of 2 …
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risk management process to international standards and implement modern risk management concepts and reporting processes … (VaR, EaR...). Even though important evolutions have been accomplished, we argue here that the long-term risk management … concerns the time consistency of long-term and mid-term risk management processes. We show that consistencies issues are coming …
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization and international trade on household income inequality and poverty using detailed micro-data across Brazilian states, from 1987 to 2005. Results suggest that Brazilian states that were more exposed to tariff cuts experienced smaller...
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We study the responses of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural experiment provided by the opening of Central and Eastern European markets after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Using data for Austrian municipalities, we examine differential...
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This paper shows the evolution of poverty in Vietnam during the deepening of trade liberalization and examines the impact of trade-related variables at the household level. The study is based on a panel dataset of households followed in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Trade-related variables at the...
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This paper develops an intra-industry model of trade with heterogeneous firms to investigate the impact of trade on the evolution of within firm productivity. The main contribution is to incorporate endogenous labor productivity gains. Heterogeneous firms have different incentives to invest in...
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This paper puts the recent evolution of tax revenues in developing countries in historical perspective. Using a novel dataset on total and trade tax revenues we compare the fiscal cost of trade liberalization in developing countries and in today's rich countries at earlier stages of development....
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