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This paper explores the role of trade instruments in globally efficient climate policies, focusing on the central issue of whether border tax adjustment (BTA) is warranted when carbon prices differ internationally. It shows that tariff policy has a role in easing cross-country distributional...
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iceberg trade costs. We introduce revenue-generating import tariffs, which act as demand shifters, into the framework of …
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In the basic model of international environmental agreements (IEAs) (Barrett 1994, Rubio and Ulph 2006) extended by international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these IEAs reduce total emissions only slightly...
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WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...
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products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the … product with a lower learning potential is greater than unity, a tariff imposed on this product can shift the demand toward …
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the viewers' equilibrium demand for high quality content. We find that, although consumers dislike advertisements, an …
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and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived … demand for productive factors, the distribution of factor incomes, and Marshall's Four Rules. This short paper notes that a …
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Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … shipments. In our inventory model, transportation costs and optimal shipment frequency are determined on the basis of demand as …
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In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … demand. The presence of a cost of firing or hiring as in Bagliano & Bertola (2004) generates an intertemporal element to a …
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In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i … limit of earnings. In short, our simulation results show that the complementarity effect has a particularly strong positive …
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