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blocs act strategically in fossil fuel markets. When the policy bloc sets a carbon tax, the fuel import price set by the … fringe also gains from reduced fuel import prices, and gains more when the policy bloc is larger. When the policy bloc sets …
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introduction of a carbon import tariff increases global welfare (and not just the welfare of the importing country) if there is no … (or insufficient) pricing of carbon abroad. A higher domestic price of carbon justifies a higher import tariff. Moreover …, a higher relative intensity of carbon abroad increases the desirability of high import tariff imposed by the home …
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This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...
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provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then … surprisingly, that the gains to the import sector are larger than the gains to the export sector. Moreover, the size and the …
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This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure increases the support of nationalist parties and causes labor market … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …
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The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
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export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect … counterfactual experiments to assess quantitatively the positive and normative effects of barriers to trade in import and export …. Furthermore, because of import and export complementarities, policies which inhibit the importation of foreign intermediates can …
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for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade … large trade value and a low elasticity of substitution; and for trade pairs that command a large share of the German import …
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. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or foreign suppliers, but with higher costs in the latter case. Due to fixed … the model with newly-compiled monthly aggregate U.S. import data and industrial production data going back to 1962, and …
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This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a theory model where the producer price is subject to bargaining between the brand-name producer and a distributor, we show that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially...
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