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towards China's decentralization of environment policy implementation as well as its fiscal arrangements. …
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into the detailed data of production and SO2 emission intensity of China's 29 industrial sectors (occupying over 98% of the …
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China is a big country in terms of biotech achievements. It is also a rare country demonstrating crop …
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This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …
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Since the GATT/WTO hinders tariffs manipulation, the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT's) are a growing and appealing protection tool. The endogenous protection literature has shown that a government's taste for protection creates an incentive for lobbying. Since regulations at the origin of such...
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agglomeration force. Firm heterogeneity causes a perfect spatial sorting, in which a large country attracts only high productivity …
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This paper sheds light on the restrictive nature of rules of origin (ROO) and on the role of diagonal cumulation in mitigating the protectionist content of ROO. Empirical evidence suggests that diagonal cumulation has beneficial effects on trade - particularly among spoke countries. We show that...
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upgrading in the North, increase aggregate productivity, average wages and therefore total welfare at the cost of increased wage …
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Buyers are typically unaware of the full set of offers when making a purchase. This paper examines how international trade interacts with this problem of market intransparency. Sellers must communicate their offers through costly advertising, but cannot reach all buyers. Consequently, no market...
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We use data on individual French exporters to document how a change in trade costs following the introduction of the euro affected firms' export margins in relation to export decisions, the number of products exported and average sales per product. Our results confirm two effects predicted by...
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