Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 512
Cover Image
A Commitment Theory of Subsidy Agreements
Brou, Daniel - 2012
This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its disposal, taxation can be distortionary and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100012
Cover Image
Contesting an International Trade Agreement
Cole, Matthew T. - 2018
We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a ‘parallel contest', that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918999
Cover Image
Antidumping as Strategic Trade Policy Under Asymmetric Information
Matschke, Xenia - 2013
This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where the foreign firm's cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753233
Cover Image
Trade Imbalances and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Marchetti, Juan A.; Ruta, Michele; Teh, Robert - 2021
Rising current account and merchandise trade imbalances marked the years before the global financial and economic crisis. These imbalances either contributed to or precipitated the crisis and to the extent that they create systemic risks, it is desirable that they be reduced. There are many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315818
Cover Image
Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316371
Cover Image
WTO Membership and the Shift to Consumption Taxes
Buettner, Thiess - 2016
implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Employing robust difference-in-difference specifications as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981352
Cover Image
A Journey from a Corruption Port to a Tax Haven
Hebous, Shafik - 2011
corruption and the concealment of officials' bribes, tax havens discourage the provision of public goods and hence have also a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119115
Cover Image
Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence
Biswas, Amit K. - 2013
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … levels of pollution are dependent on the levels of corruption. Our results hold when we control for the effects of other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092159
Cover Image
Power Over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians : Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator
van Aaken, Anne - 2008
hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772555
Cover Image
Corruption and Political Stability : Does the Youth Bulge Matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2016
This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989563