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Are current account deficits sustainable? New evidence from Iran using bounds test approach to level relationship

Heidari, Hassan; Katircioglu, Salih Turan; Davoudi, Narmin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between exports and imports of the Iranian economy by employing bounds test approach to level relationship. In Iran, there have been many unusual policy changes and/or external shocks to the economy which resulted in the occurrence of...

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Costs of trade and self-selection into exporting and importing: The case of Turkish manufacturing firms

Dalgic, Basak; Fazlioglu, Burcu; Gasiorek, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …

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Wage subsidies and international trade: When does policy coordination pay?

Braun, Sebastian; Spielmann, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, which suggests that there are benefits from international policy coordination. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an...

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Wage subsidies and international trade: When does policy coordination pay?

Braun, Sebastian; Spielmann, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with...

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Energy Saving Technology Diffusion via FDI and Trade: A CGE Model of China

Hübler, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper introduces intra- and inter-sectoral technology diffusion via FDI and imports into a recursive-dynamic CGE model for climate policy analyses. It analyzes China’s accession to a Post Kyoto emission regime that keeps global emissions from 2012 on constant. Due to ongoing energy...

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Fair, Optimal or Detrimental? Environmental vs. Strategic Use of Border Carbon Adjustment

Weitzel, Matthias; Hübler, Michael; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

. Herein, the strategic use of BTAX (the manipulation of the terms of trade) is stronger for all coalition regions than the … other energy exporters would oppose it, while the Low-Income Countries would not because of benefits from the trade …

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Can Carbon Based Import Tariffs Effectively Reduce Carbon Emissions?

Hübler, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We estimate CO2 implicitly contained in traded commodities based on the GTAP 7 data: While net carbon imports into the industrialized countries amount to 15% of their total emissions, net carbon exports of the developing countries amount to 12% of their total emissions, and net carbon exports of...

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Look Before You Leap: The Economics of Free Trade and Income Redistribution

Gundlach, Erich; Vaal, Albert de - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

Economists tend to exalt the virtues of free international trade, while politicians are more skeptical. This paper … suggests that this is the case because politicians mainly worry about the income distribution effects of trade liberalization … effects of free trade may be more complicated and hazardous than is often assumed, at least from a comparative static point of …

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