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Bjorvatn, K. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1996

This paper studies city size in a developing country. The country consists of two regions, a city producing a manufactured good and a rural area producing an agricultural good. Manufacturing can take place either formal or informal sector, the formal sector being characterized by increasing...

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Uncertain Trade Costs and Industrial Localisation : Concentration versus Diversification.

Midelfart Knarvik, K-H - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1996

The paper studies how uncertainty about future trade arrangements affecting firms' competitiveness and market access … competition, and we show that risk aversion is not a necessary condition for firms to respond negatively to trade cost uncertainty. …

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On the Legitimacy of Green Trade Policy.

Maestad, O. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1995

global economy will be enhanced by implementing trade provisions along with domestic environmental regulations. …

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Industrialization and Regional Inequality.

Bjorvatn, K. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1996

This paper studies the effects of changes in transportation costs on industrialization, inter-regional trade and …

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Job Destruction, Heterogeneous Workers, Trade and Technical Change: Matched Worker/Plant Data Evidence from Norway.

Salvanes, K.G.; Forre, S.E. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1999

Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, trade and technology explanations for the change in skill composition …

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Endogenous Growth and Trade Liberalization Between Small and Large Countries.

Kind, H-J - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1997

growth rates, empirical research indicates that partial trade liberalization between more open economies has ambiguous growth …

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Commodity Taxation and International Trade in Imperfect Markets.

Haufler, A.; Schjelderup, G.; Stahler, F. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 2000

This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with imperfect competition and trade costs …

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Integration and Transition: Scenarios for Location of Production and Trade in Europe.

Forslid, R.; Haaland, J.I.; Knarvik, K.H.M.; Maestad, O. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1999

-industry trade and "new economic geography" agglomeration forces. The simulations focus on successful transformation in Eastern …

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Tax Treaties and the Marginal Cost of Funds.

Cappelen, A.W. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 2000

This paper analyses the marginal cost of public funds under different international tax regimes when the government has a uniform, broas-based value added tax as its only source of revenue and when countries produce both tradeable and non-tradeable goods. Using the concepts of direct and...

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Economic Integration and Foreign Direct Investment.

Bjorvatn, K. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1999

has been a process of economic integration between countries, bringing down costs of trade. At first sight, the increased … importance of FDI seems paradoxical; we would expect lower trade costs to promote trade rather than direct investment. This paper … demonstrates that a reduction in trade costs may indeed induce firms to choose FDI rather than exports. We also demonstrate that …

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