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of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …
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This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large … class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high …-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade cannot prevent the export of tainted products, and the condition fortainting …
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We investigate the cyclicality of the private savings to GDP ratio for a panel of 19 OECD countries over the period 1971-2009. We find robust evidence that the private savings ratio is countercyclical. Three theories unambiguously predict a higher private savings ratio during recessions: a...
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In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate...
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In this paper we investigate the effects of new railway stations on house prices using an extensive repeated sales dataset over a period of 13 years. We employ semiparametric panel data techniques allowing for anticipation effects of station openings. We show that a kilometre reduction in...
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We examine interaction between trade in goods and market power in domestic trade and distribution, developing a model … that highlights this interaction. Theory points to an expected linkage between service sector competition and goods trade … direct impact of tariffs on trade flows. …
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We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing … yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality in Heckscher …
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future Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between theenlarged EU and Russia. The paper uses Computable General Equilibrium …
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This paper is concerned with the interaction of regulated efficiency and World Trade Organization (WTO) accession and …
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We study the optimal trade policy against a foreign oligopoly withendogenous quality. We show that, under the Most … Favoured Nation(MFN) clause, a uniform tariff policy is always welfare improvingover the free trade equilibrium. However, a … low-quality product and a tax onhigh-quality one. Another example of such a nonuniform tariff policyis a Regional Trade …
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