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Issue Linkage and Issue Tie-in in Multilateral Negotiations.

Conconi, P.; Perroni, C. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2000

multilateral cooperation when countries are linked by international trade flows and transboundary pollution. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005583073

The Terms of Trade, Productivity Shocks, and the Current Account

Iscan, T. - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University - 1998

This paper extends the analytical framework provided by Glick and Rogoff (JME 1995) to an economy with traded and nontraded goods, and it analyzes the impact of country-specific and global productivity shocks on the current account and investment that are largely consistent with the empirical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005368538

Econometric Evidence on LDC Exports: A Contribution to the Hong Kong Debate.

Leech, D.; Halstead, G. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1996

This paper argues that previous empirical work on the explanation for Hong Kong's export Growth, by focusing on the values of the estimated price and income elasticities, has failed to provide a full account. It is necessarily also to look at changes in the explanatory variables in the model,...

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Present Value Tests of the Current Account with Durables Consumption.

Iscan, T. - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University - 1999

The present value tests of intertemporal model of the current account usually assume that all goods are traded and that aggregate consumption decisions can be closely approximated by a random walk process. This paper extends these models by explicitly introducing durables and nontraded goods...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146811

The Virtues of Flecibility: Import Dependence and External Shocks.

Dennis, B.N.; Iscan, T.B. - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University - 2000

of a severe terms-of-trade shock. We demonstrate that the degree of flexibility reulting from these reallocative effects …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005741359

Trade Bloc Formation Under Imperfect Competition.

Conconi, P. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2000

We examine the endogenous formation of trade blocs when markets are characterized by imperfect competition and … simple model of intra-industry trade between three ex-ante symmetric countries, we find that, while 'pure' customs unions … - entailing tariff cooperation only - are stepping stones towards global free trade, 'impure' customs unions - involving the …

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The Efficiency, Equity and Politics of Emission Permit Trading.

Wooders, M.; Zissimos, B. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2001

This paper illustrates that an international permit trading system may hurt relatively poor countries by making associated economic activities unaffordable. A model is constructed in which the free market solution is Pareto inefficient as a result of pollution. The introduction of tradable...

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