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Social dumping in the transformation process
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001
-developed countries of practising social dumping in the sense of deliberately neglecting work-place safety legislation, co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399263
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Dumping in developing and transition economies
Moraga-González, José Luis (contributor);  … - 2004
anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentives of oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake … dumping in these economies. We show that dumping may be due to cross-country differences in income, to the extent of tariff … protection and to the exchange rate depreciations observed recently. Dumping may arise even if consumers exhaust all arbitrage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002523874
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Non-tariff barriers and trade liberalization
Anderson, Simon P.; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2000
This paper shows that governments have no incentive to introduce non-tariff barriers when they are free to set tariffs but they do when tariffs are determined cooperatively. We then show three results. First, with trade liberalization, there is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781528
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The health burden of e-waste : the impact of e-waste dumping sites on child mortality
Lovo, Stefania; Rawlings, Samantha B. - 2022
This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362397
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The circular economy
Fullerton, Don - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529224
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The economics of recycling heterogeneity
Fullerton, Don; Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 2024
This paper summarizes the economics perspective on recycling of municipal solid waste. The first section reviews recent data on recycling rates in the United States and across all OECD countries. The OECD data suggest the average aggregate recycling rate across member countries appears to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061148
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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU? : a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641707
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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis
Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730274
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763931
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Labour market institutions and their effect on labour market performance in the new EU member countries
Fialová, Kamila (contributor);  … - 2008
This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763951