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In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore … the conclusion that there is a strong link between round-trip investment and corruption money laundering …
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other hand, corruption can be welfare improving if queuing costs are replaced by resource transferring bribes. We also show …
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This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
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The 2008 financial crisis did not precipitate global retaliatory trade intervention, in seeming contrast to the Great Depression in 1930s. This paper discusses the influence of model structure in optimal tariff (OT) calculations in explaining this puzzle. We emphasize how earlier literature...
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(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods …
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for reductions by China, India, Russia, Brazil, US, EU, Japan and a residual Row. Given the damage estimates we use all …
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unilaterally , or as part of a global treaty and to be applied against non signatories. We use a four-region (US, EU, China, ROW … BTAs, BTAs reduce imports of committing countries, and increase imports by other countries. EU and US BTAs against China … reduce exports by China. With BTAs, the value of production in the country with carbon reduction measures are introduced …
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We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...
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This paper analyzes the medium to long-term implications of global warming for the evolution of global financial structures. Stern (2007) and other related scientific literature reports that greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activities will very possibly lead to global temperature...
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Country incentives to participate in cooperative arrangements which either fully or partially internalize climate change externalities from carbon emissions involve critical asymmetries. Small countries trade off own country costs of carbon mitigation actions against their own benefits from...
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