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Niobium is a highly strategic mineral, in which Brazil holds almost all of the world's reserves followed by Canada …
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The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
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This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …
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competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …
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According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of 'dirty' goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
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Asymmetric climate policies are expected to distort the level-playing field regarding international trade, singularly to the detriment of small open economies. The paper develops a flexible method that provides essential input regarding the design of offsetting measures. It builds on...
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When countries compete for the location of a new multinational plant they need to be aware of the profit shifting opportunities this new plant creates for the global multinational firm. By modelling explicitly the multinational's intra-firm transactions, we show that the home market advantage...
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The paper provides an equilibrium analysis of how countries compete for migrants. The type of competition (tax or … transfer competition) depends on whether the competing countries have similar policy preferences. With symmetric preferences …, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels …
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is …
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