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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute

Krishna, Kala - 1996

Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...

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Anti-Competitive and Rent-Shifting Aspects of Domestic-Content Provisions in Regional Trade Blocks

Lopez-de-Silane, Florencio - 1993

demand for the substitute domestic inputs falls (the scale effect of reduced output outweighs a substitution effect in favor …

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Exchange Rates and U.S. Auto Competitiveness

Richardson, J. David - 1987

This paper develops unique disaggregated data for three U.S. automakers and three Japanese to assess how changes in exchange rates, factor costs, and voluntary export restraints have affected recent price competitiveness in the U.S. passenger car market. We find support for several familiar...

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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms

Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We characterize what features make supply chains more resilient. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event-study design we find firms with suppliers in...

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The Evolving Market for Catastrophic Event Risk

Froot, Kenneth A. - 1999

This paper discusses the recent changes in the market for catastrophe risk. These risks have traditionally been distributed through the insurance and reinsurance systems. However, because insurance companies tend to share relatively small amounts of their cat exposures and because insurance...

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Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort : Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?

Yin, Haitao - 2009

This paper examines whether risk-based pricing promotes risk-reducing effort. Such mechanisms are common in private insurance markets, but are rarely incorporated in government assurance programs. We analyze accidental underground fuel tank leaks--a source of environmental damage to water...

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Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition

Mayer, Thierry - 2016

We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … multi-product firms and derive the specific demand conditions needed to generate these product-mix reallocations. These …

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Import Competition and Macro Economic Adjustment under Wage-Price Rigidity

Bruno, Michael - 1980

in terms of demand management and exchange rate (or tariff) policy as well as supply management are analyzed. The theory …

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Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor

Eli, Shari - 2015

patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

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Inferring Risk Perceptions and Preferences using Choice from Insurance Menus : Theory and Evidence

Ericson, Keith Marzilli - 2015

Demand for insurance can be driven by high risk aversion or high risk. We show how to separately identify risk …

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