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Use and Abuse of Antidumping by Global Cartels
Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Hoffstadt, Martin - 2021
Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy … that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … quantity effects of antidumping in cartel products. We find that the use of antidumping in cartel industries helps to maintain …
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Trade, Trees, and Contingent Trade Agreements
Harstad, Bård - 2022
Can trade agreements motivate environmental conservation? I first present a model whereby the government in the South expands its production capacity (e.g., deforest) before trading with the North. After deriving negative relationships between tariff reductions and conservation, I show how all...
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Droughts and Farms' Financial Performance in New Zealand : A Micro Farm-Level Study
Pourzand, Farnaz - 2019
We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a comprehensive administrative database of all businesses in New Zealand, we investigate the impact of droughts on farm revenue, profits, return on capital, business equity, debt to...
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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space
Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
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Insurance Retreat in Residential Properties from Future Sea Level Rise in Aotearoa New Zealand
Storey, Belinda; Zammit, Christian; Owen, Sally; Noy, Ilan - 2022
How will the increased frequency of coastal inundation events induced by sea level rise impact residential insurance premiums, and when would insurance contracts be withdrawn? We model the contribution of localised sea level rise to the increased frequency of coastal inundation events. Examining...
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Antidumping as strategic trade policy under asymmetric information
Matschke, Xenia; Schöttner, Anja - 2009
This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where … penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade …
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A commitment theory of subsidy agreements
Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - 2012
This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its disposal, taxation can be distortionary and the...
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher - 2020
influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …
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