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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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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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We study the effect of import competition on workers’ mental distress. To this purpose, we source information on the … mental health of British workers from the British Household Panel Survey, and combine it with measures of import competition … in more than 100 industries over 2001-2007. We find an increase in import competition to have a positive, statistically …
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Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster than GDP. Fiscal consolidation alone cannot close the solvency gap. A substantial reduction in the stock of debt is needed. Even post-debt restructuring, there is no guarantee...
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With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
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