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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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Macroeconomics and the Environment : A Selective Survey
Sen, Partha - 2020
? National income accounts do not take into account non-market activities. Some progress has been made in the theory and …
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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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The Socio-Economics of Pandemics Policy
Snower, Dennis - 2020
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world have provided a massive fiscal and monetary stimulus … selfish individuals and more on the mobilization of people's prosocial motives. Finally, to encourage people around the world … encourage people around the world to cooperate globally in tackling global problems, with the aid of two powerful tools that …
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Rising to the Challenge : Bayesian Estimation and Forecasting Techniques for Macroeconomic Agent-Based Models
Delli Gatti, Domenico - 2019
We propose two novel methods to "bring ABMs to the data". First, we put forward a new Bayesian procedure to estimate the numerical values of ABM parameters that takes into account the time structure of simulated and observed time series. Second, we propose a method to forecast aggregate time...
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Macroeconomics with a Thick Pen
Gronwald, Marc; Jin, Xin - 2023
This paper introduces two co-movement measures based on the Thick Pen Transform into the macroeconomic literature: the Thick Pen Measure of Association (TPMA) as well as Multi-Thickness Thick Pen Measure of Association (MTTPMA). Both measures are non-parametric, time-varying, and flexible....
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The weak rationality principle in economics
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2005
The weak rationality principle is not an empirical statement but a heuristic rule of how to proceed in social sciences. It is a necessary ingredient of any ?understanding? social science in the Weberian sense. In this paper, first this principle and its role in economic theorizing is discussed....
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A Role Model for China? Exchange Rate Flexibility and Monetary Policy in Japan
Schnabl, Gunther; Danne, Christian - 2021
Few papers have tried to project how Chinese monetary policy will behave under flexible exchange rates. As Japan provides an important role model for China, this paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate for Japanese monetary policy after the shift of Japan from a fixed to a...
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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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The Trade Effects of Anti-Dumping Duties : Firm-Level Evidence from China
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2018
This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm …
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