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Economy wide impact of the trade integration between Japan and India : a computable general equilibrium analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - 2013
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The CEPA will eliminate tariff on goods that account for 94% of their two way trade over ten years and will boost bilateral trade and investment. Indian exports which were subject...
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Voting with their money : Brexit and outward investment by UK firms
Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2019
We study the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on UK foreign direct investment. Using the synthetic control method to construct appropriate counterfactuals, we show that by March 2019 the Leave vote had led to a 17% increase in the number of UK outward investment transactions in the remaining...
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The economic consequences of the Brexit vote
Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot J.; Schularick, Moritz; … - 2017
This paper introduces a data-driven, transparent and unbiased method to calculate the economic costs of the Brexit vote in June 2016. We let a matching algorithm determine a combination of comparison economies that best resembles the growth path of the UK economy before the Brexit referendum....
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Mechanical and psychological effects of electoral reform
Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle - 2011
Duverger (1954) noted that changes in electoral systems will have two types of effects: mechanical effects, and reactions of political agents in anticipation of these, which he referred to as psychological effects. It is complicated to empirically separate the two effects since these occur...
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Exploring the heterogeneous effects of state price transparency laws on charge prices, negotiated prices, and operating costs
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
To limit the dramatic growth of U.S. health care expenditures, some states have mandated that medical providers publicly report their charge prices. Our study evaluates the heterogeneous effects of this price transparency policy. We use a comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000...
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A lockdown a day keeps the doctor away : the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Levelu, Anthonin; Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai - 2022
Countries have employed a variety of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in order to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the success of individual measures in reducing the number of infections remains controversial. This paper exploits a panel data set of 182 countries to estimate the...
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Food subsidies in general equilibrium
Hummel, Albert Jan; Ziesemer, Vinzenz - 2021
investigates the implications for optimal food subsidies in China. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model where low …-skilled workers have a comparative advantage in the production of food. Food subsidies raise the relative demand for low … obtain from micro-level survey data. Our results suggest that general equilibrium effects rationalize food subsidies in the …
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Did the renewable fuel standard shift market expectations of the price of ethanol?
Baumeister, Christiane; Ellwanger, Reinhard; Kilian, Lutz - 2016
It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in biofuel policies operates in part through market expectations and shifts in storage demand, yet to date it has proved difficult to measure these expectations and to empirically...
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Did Trump's trade war impact the 2018 election?
Blanchard, Emily J.; Bown, Chad P.; Chor, Davin - 2020
tariffs on agricultural products, and were only partially mitigated by the US agricultural subsidies announced in summer 2018 …
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Impact of European food safety border inspections on agri-food exports : evidence from Chinese firms
Beestermöller, Matthias; Disdier, Anne-Célia; … - 2016
The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
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