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Sustainability and international trade in resources

Klepper, Gernot; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

policy may even imply an increased resource use. In this case, a large part of the sustainability objective is met by … substituting domestic resource extraction by imports. When sustainability is modelled in an inter temporal, competitive framework …, the paper shows that the sustainability rule will not lead to a slower rate of extraction of the resource. …

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Climate Policy and Trade: Dynamics and the Steady-State Assumption in a multi-regional Framework

Springer, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

Most dynamic trade models assume steady state or balanced growth. This paper argues while this can be done in a single region model or a model without trade, the steady state assumption is problematic in a multi-regional setting with trade interactions. This paper shows the consequences of...

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On the effects of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking

Lorz, Jens Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper deals with the influence of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking activities of local interest groups. It employs a model where households differ with respect to their endowment with the immobile factor land. Local governments decide about the level of...

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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...

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The DART general equilibrium model: A technical description

Springer, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper provides a technical description of the Dynamic Applied Regional Trade (DART) General Equilibrium Model. The DART model is a recursive dynamic, multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model. All regions are fully specified and linked by bilateral trade flows. The...

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Migration, trade and unemployment

Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impact of globalization and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed negative effect of immigration on labor...

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Wechselkursunsicherheit und Außenhandel: Eine Analye der theoretischen Literatur

Fischer, Malte - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

The impact of exchange rate uncertainty on international trade has been discussed controversially in economic policy and theory for a long time. The paper surveys the theoretical investigations on this topic. The early modeis which analyse the influence of exchange rate uncertainty on trade,...

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Die Preisbildung im westdeutschen Außenhandel: Eine empirische Analyse

Fischer, Malte - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

Which factors determine the prices of West German expörts and imports? To answer this question, two single equation error correction modeis are applied. Export prices turn out to be mainly determined by prices for concurrent goods proiduced abroad, whereas unit labor costs and the nominal...

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Why should sub-Saharan Africa care about the Doha development round?

Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; Al Doyaili, Sarah - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In recent years sub-Saharan Africa, notwithstanding the global financial crisis, has increased its share in global trade and investment flows. This has led to an appreciable improvement in development levels, albeit off a small base. However, these patterns are still dominated by commodity flows...

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Monetary policy shocks and macroeconomic variables: Evidence from fast growing emerging economies

Ivrendi, Mehmet; Yildirim, Zekeriya - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper investigates both the effects of domestic monetary policy and external shocks on fundamental macroeconomic variables in six fast growing emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Turkey - denoted hereafter as BRICS_T. The authors adopt a structural VAR model...

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