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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism
Wang, Shunli; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Nijkamp, Peter; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...
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Tainted Food, Low-Quality Products and Trade
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zhao, Laixun - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257644
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Export Growth and Factor Market Competition: Theory and Some Evidence
Namini, Julian Emami; Facchini, Giovanni; Lopez, Ricardo A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that sectoral export growth decreases exporters' survival probability, whereas this is not true for non-exporters. Models with firm heterogeneity in total factor productivity (TFP) predict the opposite. To solve this puzzle, we develop a two{factor framework where...
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Anti-dumping, Intra-industry Trade and Quality Reversals
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
into the domestic economy. Two instruments of anti-dumping (AD) policy are examined,namely, a price undertaking (PU) and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256059
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Dumping in Developing and Transition Economies
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economieshave increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentivesof oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumpingmay be due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256083
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Dumping in a Global World
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Anti-dumping actions are now the trade policy of choice of developing and transition economies. To understand why these economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws, we build a simple theoretical model of vertical intra-industry trade and investigate the strategic incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256182
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Trade Policy of Transition Economics
Moraga, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
This paper focuses on ignored issues regarding the impact of trade reforms in transition economies. These economies are primarily characterized by a low quality of their products, large depreciations of their currencies, and a high degree of government intervention in economic activity. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256815
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Oligopolistic Competition in Price and Quality
Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C.W. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers … types of signalling equilibria are possible. Both are characterised by dispersion and Pareto-inefficiency of the price …/quality offers. But, better price/quality combinations are signalled with lower prices in one type and with higher prices in the …
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness
Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Withagen, Cees A.A.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
The potential relationship between domestic environmental regulation and internationalcompetitiveness has evoked various speculations. The common neoclassical train of thought is thatstrict environmental regulation is detrimental to the competitiveness of industry, and that itinduces phenomena...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256122
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Optimal Environmental Policy Differentials under Emissions Constraints
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Mulatu, Abay; Withagen, Cees A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Is there a case to be made for preferential treatment of the exposed sector in an economy when compliance to an aggregate emissions constraint induced by an international environmental agreement is mandatory? This question is being debated in many countries, including The Netherlands, in the...
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