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Technological Sovereignty as Ability, Not Autarky

March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021

negative interpretations, such as equating the concept with a strive for autarky, nationalism, and the roll-back of …

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International trade and transnational insecurity : how comparative advantage and power are jointly determined

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2009

resources. The costs of such disputes in terms of arming depend on the trade regime in place. Under either autarky or free trade … gains from trade and thus render autarky more desirable for one or both rival states. Furthermore, contestation of resources …

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An Equilibrium Theory of Nominal Exchange Rates

Hagedorn, Marcus - 2021

This paper proposes an equilibrium theory of nominal exchange rates, which offers a new perspective on various issues … features of this theory are that the nominal exchange rate is determined in international financial markets, that the risk … from the nominal exchange rate. In terms of policy, this novel theory implies that a country with an exchange rate peg and …

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Adding geography to the new economic geography

Bosker, E. Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2007

For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way: attention is either confined to a simple 2-region or to an equidistant multi-region world. As a result, the main predictions regarding the impact of e.g. diminishing trade costs are...

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International antitrust enforcement and multi-market contact

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2009

This paper analyzes international antitrust enforcement when multinational firms operate in several markets with antitrust authorities in each market. We are concerned with how the sustainability of collusion in one local market is affected by the existence of collusion in other markets when...

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Even small trade costs restore efficiency in tax competition

Becker, Johannes; Runkel, Marco - 2010

We introduce transport cost of trade in products into the classical Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) model of capital tax competition. It turns out that even small levels of transport cost lead to a complete breakdown of the seminal result, the underprovision of public goods. Instead, there is a...

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Justifying the Lindahl solution as an outcome of fair cooperation

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2005

The Lindahl equilibrium is mostly motivated by a rather artificial price mechanism. Even though the analogy to a competitive market has been emphasised by Lindahl himself his approach does not directly explain the normative ideas, which are behind this concept. In the present paper we therefore...

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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...

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Workforce or Workfare?

Brett, Craig - 2011

This article explores the use of workfare as part of an optimal tax mix when labor supply responses are along the extensive margin. Particular attention is paid to the interaction between workfare and an earned income tax credit, two policies that are designed to provide additional incentives...

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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts : Theory and Evidence

Cao, Shutao - 2014

This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment …

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