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Intertemporal Price Discrimination in Storable Goods Markets
Hendel, Igal - 2011
We study intertemporal price discrimination when consumers can store for future consumption needs. To make the problem tractable we offer a simple model of demand dynamics, which we estimate using market level data. Optimal pricing involves temporary price reductions that enable sellers to...
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Alternatives for growth : the engineering and economics of natural resources development : a conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research
MacMains, Harvey J. (ed.); Wilcox, Lyle (contributor) - 1978
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000062504
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Commodity Trade Matters
Fally, Thibault - 2018
Primary commodities are used as inputs into all production processes, yet they account for approximately 16 percent of world trade. Despite their share in trade, we show that the aggregate gains from trade are largely understated if we ignore key features of commodities: low price elasticities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480618
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An Economic Rationale for the African Scramble : The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1845-1885
Frankema, Ewout - 2015
This is the first study to present a unified quantitative account of African commodity trade in the long 19th century from the zenith of the Atlantic slave trade (1790s) to the eve of World War II (1939). Drawing evidence from a new dataset on export and import prices, volumes, composition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457454
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Commodity Trade and the Carry Trade : a Tale of Two Countries
Ready, Robert - 2013
Persistent differences in interest rates across countries account for much of the profitability of currency carry trade strategies. "Commodity currencies'' tend to have high interest rates while low interest rate currencies belong to exporters of finished goods. This pattern arises in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459290
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Monetary Rules for Commodity Traders
Catão, Luis - 2012
We develop a dynamic model of a small open economy that trades commodities whose world prices are subject to realistic random fluctuations, and study the implications of monetary policy alternatives. The model is much more flexible than those of previous studies, especially in allowing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460124
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461940
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Chinese Firm and Industry Reactions to Antidumping Initiations and Measures
Li, Chunding - 2010
Because of large and rapid growing export volumes and its formal status as a non-market economy; China has been the … are against China; India, in turn, is the largest source of initiation against China by number of actions. Here we explore … empirically. We use industrial panel data on all Chinese firms in the industry, foreign firms operating within China and state …
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Further Comments on The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2010
China during the four decades between 2000 and 2040. The first concerns the source of the factors which make it likely that … China will continue to grow at a high rate for another generation. The paper argues that this growth will be the result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462930
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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations
Dong, Yan - 2009
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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