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This paper explores the private and social benefits from barter exchange in a monetized economy. We first prove a no …-monetary exchange avoids this limitation and enhances trade by (1) generating liquidity and (2) by segmenting the market place into low …-demand and high-demand customers in a manner which is impossible with pure monetary exchange. We provide comparative statics …
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Itaya et al. (2014) study the conditions for sustainability and stability of capital tax coordination in a repeated …
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Theoretical and experimental studies of noncooperative games increasingly recognize Nash equilibrium as a limiting outcome of players repeated interaction. This note, while sharing that view, illustrates and advocates combined use of convex optimization and differential equations, the purpose...
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We study the formation of networks in environments where agents derive benefits from other agents directly linked to them but suffer losses through contagion when any agent on a path connected to them is hit by a shock. We first consider networks with undirected links (e.g. epidemics,...
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equilibrium is characterized by unilateral dumping by the foreign firm into the domestic economy. Two instruments of anti-dumping … (AD) policy are examined, namely, a price undertaking (PU) and an anti-dumping duty. We show that, when firms ̕cost …
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This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where … penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade … optimal strategic trade policy. -- Antidumping duties ; asymmetric information ; trade protection ; strategic trade policy …
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is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas, and to antidumping constraints (when quotas are jointly eliminated …
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anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentives of oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake … protection and to the exchange rate depreciations observed recently. Dumping may arise even if consumers exhaust all arbitrage … dumping in these economies. We show that dumping may be due to cross-country differences in income, to the extent of tariff …
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In unavoidable traffic accidents, autonomous vehicles (AVs) face the dilemma of protecting either the passenger(s) or third parties. Recent studies show that most people prefer AVs following a utilitarian approach by minimizing total harm. At the same time, however, they would adopt an AV only...
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This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and...
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