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This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
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be hard to resist the eventual extension of existing EU mechanisms of income redistribution--a transfer union. We propose … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …
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Using newly assembled data on foreign exchange market intervention, we construct a daily index of exchange market pressure during the 1992-3 crisis in the European Monetary System, allowing us to pinpoint when and where the crisis was most severe. Our analysis focuses on a neglected factor in...
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coefficients show that immigration policies balancing the number of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants from outside the EU …
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We analyze the role of labor mobility in cushioning labor demand shocks in the Euro Area. We find that foreign born workers' mobility is strongly cyclical, while this is not the case for natives. Foreigners' higher population to employment elasticity reduces the variation of overall employment...
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In the UK's 2016 referendum on EU membership, young voters were more likely than their elders to vote Remain. Applying …
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antidumping actions against China from developed and developing countries, US and EU to compare their different effects. We find … industry reactions to antidumping actions by the US and EU are the same as for other developed countries, but the effects of US … actions are larger. US antidumping actions have more impact than EU's on firm numbers, employees and exports, and EU …
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The possibility that the euro area might break up was being raised even before the single currency existed. These scenarios were then lent new life five or six years on, when appreciation of the euro and problems of slow growth in various member states led politicians to blame the European...
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We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...
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competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate preferential arrangements with smaller countries or regions will lower … such an arrangement lies in improved access to a smaller but more protected market where the EU already has preferential …
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