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Taxes Versus Cap-and-Trade in Climate Policy When Only Some Fuel Importers Abate

Strand, Jon - 2010

I study climate policy choices for a “policy bloc” of fuel-importers, when a “fringe” of other fuel importers have no climate policy, fuel exporters consume no fossil fuels, and importers produce no such fuels. The policy bloc and exporter blocs act strategically in fossil fuel markets....

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Global Welfare Implications of Carbon Border Taxes

Gros, Daniel - 2014

This paper presents a simple, basic model to compute the welfare consequences of the introduction of a tariff on the CO2 content of imported goods in a country that already imposes a domestic carbon tax. The main finding is that the introduction of a carbon import tariff increases global welfare...

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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development

Cai, Wenbiao - 2013

This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...

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China's Gains from WTO Accession : Imports versus Exports

Lai, Ting-Wei - 2016

We examine the gains from Chinese accession to the WTO. Using Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodríguez-Clare (2012) we provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then evaluate how the increased openness caused by China's...

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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters

Dippel, Christian - 2018

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure...

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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance

Chan, Ho Fai - 2013

The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...

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Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export : Theory and Evidence

Kasahara, Hiroyuki - 2008

This paper develops an open economy model with heterogeneous final goods producers who simultaneously choose whether to export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and...

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Die Another Day : Duration in German Import Trade

Nitsch, Volker - 2007

International trade patterns at the product level are surprisingly dynamic. The majority of trade relationships exist for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade at the 8-digit product level from 1995 to 2005. I find...

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Trade and Uncertainty

Novy, Dennis - 2014

We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of international trade, extending the idea to the open economy. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or...

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Price Regulation and Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals

Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2015

This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a … imports. While parallel imports improve the bargaining position of the distributor, price regulation counteracts this effect … regulation reduces competition from parallel imports, and has no (strictly negative) effect on producer profits in the presence …

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