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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions

Bagwell, Kyle - 1999

To what extent must nations cede control over their economic and social policies if global efficiency is to be achieved in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor, the WTO) in the realm of labor and environmental...

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Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Bilateral Opportunism and the Rules of GATT

Bagwell, Kyle - 1999

Trade negotiations occur through time and between the governments of many countries. An important issue is thus whether the value of concessions that a government wins in a current negotiation may be eroded in a future bilateral negotiation to which it is not party. In the absence of rules that...

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A Model of Forum Shopping, with Special Reference to Standard Setting Organizations

Lerner, Josh - 2004

Owners of intellectual property or mere sponsors of an idea (e.g., authors, security issuers, sponsors of standards) often need to persuade potential buyers or adopters of the worth of their property or idea. To this purpose, they often resort to more or less independent certifiers. This paper...

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Special issue: Proceedings of the Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar on "Taxation of Financial Income", Gerzensee, 22 - 24 May, 2000

Bacchetta, Philippe (contributor); … - Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar on Taxation of … - 2003

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Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes

Bagwell, Kyle - 2000

The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets. Indeed, these … predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the … theory is augmented to allow for politically-motivated governments, so that the sign of export policy may be converted from …

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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions

Benabou, Roland - 2000

This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self esteem and his social environment in the workplace, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent,...

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Tax Structure and Government Behavior : Implications for Tax Policy

Gordon, Roger H. - 1999

Changes in tax policy can affect all aspects of the economy. Not only do firms and individuals change behavior, creating efficiency costs, but government expenditure choices can also change. Unless these expenditure choices had been optimal' previously, changes in response to a tax reform affect...

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Government as a Discriminating Monopolist in the Financial Market : The Case of China

Gordon, Roger H. - 1999

To date, China has maintained a variety of restrictions on its financial markets. In addition to imposing capital controls and regulating interest rates, the government controls both the set of firms that can sell equity on the domestic or foreign stock markets, and the amount they can sell....

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Measuring the Efficiency Cost of Taxing Risky Capital Income

Gordon, Roger H. - 1986

-sigma(s) T(s)c(deltaX(s)), where T(s) measures the present value of the taxes that would be paid on a unit of investment in a riskless project with the same expected depreciation rate and tax treatment as capital invested in period s, X(s), while c(X(s)) represents the certainty equivalent to...

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Intergenerational Risk Sharing

Gordon, Roger H. - 1985

In this paper, we argue that in designing government debt and tax-transfer policies, it is important to consider their implications for the allocation of risk between generations. There is no reason to presume that the market or the family can allocate risk efficiently to future generations,...

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