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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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Intra-Industry Trade, Endogenous Technological Change, Wage Inequality and Welfare

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

By using two alternative intra-industry trade models (1. - New goods cannot be introduced into the economy; 2. - The … obtained by using an imperfect competitive model, which embodies a sector bias technological change that arises from trade. In … addition, the gains from trade, insignificant under the standard trade hypotheses, are extraordinarily large when endogenous …

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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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Crude Oil Price Fluctuations and Saudi Arabian Behaviour

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

This study seeks to explain why crude oil prices fluctuate, the main cause being the quota regime, which characterises the OPEC agreements. Given that the Saudi oil supply is inelastic in the short term, a shock in the oil market is accommodated by an immediate price change. In contrast, a...

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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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