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Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments

Tian, Huifang - 2009

Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC negotiations in Copenhagen, any emission reduction targets they take on should be based on their intensity of emissions (emissions/$GDP) on a target date not the level of emissions. They...

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China's Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations

Tian, Huifang - 2008

In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the largest and most rapidly growing carbon emitter, and...

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Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments : Old Wine in Green Bottles?

Lockwood, Ben - 2008

as the EU, if making commitments to reduce emissions which go beyond those undertaken in other regions of the world …

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Recent Chinese Buyout Activity and the Implications for Global Architecture

Antkiewicz, Agata - 2006

We discuss recent cases of Chinese buyout activity in the OECD (especially in the US and the EU) in resource and manufacturing sectors. While most of the buyout attempts have been unsuccessful, they can serve as a catalyst for a wider discussion on the implications for global arrangements over...

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Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes

Edwards, T. Huw - 2002

increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies both when …

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Puzzles Over International Taxation of Cross Border Flows of Capital Income

Whalley, John - 2001

I discuss the tax treatment of transborder capital income, focussing on prevailing arrangements rather than de novo design of optimal tax arrangements. These comprise unilateral reliefs from double taxation under credit or exemption systems, and treaty reliefs (largely following the OECD model...

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The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and Its Impacts on Trade

Chen, Hejing - 2011

Results suggest that GPA membership has a positive impact on trade in both goods and services between parties as well as on outward foreign affiliate service sales. The number of GPA parties has a small marginal negative effect on trade in goods. Service exports also increase slightly with more...

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Foreign Affiliate Sales and Trade in Both Goods and Services

Li, Chunding - 2010

(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods …

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The Potential Global and Developing Country Impacts of Alternative Emission Cuts and Accompanying Mechanisms for the Post Copenhagen Process

Tian, Huifang - 2010

We report numerical simulation results using a multiyear global multi country modeling framework which we use to assess the impacts of alternative emissions cuts which will likely come under consideration for the process to follow the December 2009 UNFCCC negotiation in Copenhagen. The...

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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments

Dong, Yan - 2009

increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical …

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