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Can Canada Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Why just wanting it is not enough
Dawson, Laura - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 340
In late 2011, Canada indicated it wanted to join negotiations underway among nine countries towards a new Trans …-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on trade. It is important for Canada to be at the table in these talks, which currently involve … economies comprising 28 percent of world GDP. There is a stumbling block, however: Canada had the chance in 2005 to join the …
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Hidden Protectionism? Evidence from Non-tariff Barriers to Trade in the United States
Grundke, Robert; Moser, Christoph - CESifo - 2014
Are product standards protectionism in disguise? This paper estimates the costs of non-compliance with U.S. product standards, using a new database on U.S. import refusals from 2002 to 2012. We find that import refusals significantly decrease exports to the United States. This trade reducing...
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Labour Supply Effects of an Early Retirement Programme
Brinch, Christian; Hernæs, Erik; Strøm, Steinar - CESifo - 2001
In 1988, an early retirement program (AFP) was introduced in Norway for the 66-years-old. Since then, AFP has gradually been extended and by now it covers workers aged 62-66. In this paper we employ a multinominal logit model to study the transition between states in the labour market. The model...
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Retirement in Non-Cooperative and Cooperative Families
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - CESifo - 2001
Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in 1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months...
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Issue Linkage and Issue Tie-in in Multilateral Negotiations
Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - CESifo - 2001
We describe a model of international, multidimensional policy coordination where countries can enter into selective and separate agreements with different partners along different policy dimensions. The model is used to examine the implications of negotiation tie-in - the requirement that...
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The Political Economy of Policy Centralization: Direct Versus Representative Democracy
Redoano, Michela; Scharf, Kimberley Ann - CESifo - 2001
This paper examines policy centralization outcomes in a two-jurisdiction, political economy model of public good provision choices with heterogeneous policy preferences and interjurisdictional policy spillovers, under alternative democratic choice procedures, namely, direct democracy and...
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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
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A Simple Theory of Trade, Finance, and Firm Dynamics
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Spiegel, Gilbert - CESifo - 2012
We propose a stylized monopolistic competition model of international trade where firms differ with respect to the expected economic lifetime of their innovations. Upon entry, they receive a commonly observed signal which is updated over time. Jointly with partial irreversibility of investment,...
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Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm Level Evidence
Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Orefice, Gianluca; … - CESifo - 2013
We address the trade effect of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade, by matching a detailed panel of French firm exports with a new database compiling the list of Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary regulatory measures that have been raised as a concern in dedicated committees of the...
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - CESifo - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
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