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This paper presents a new measure of aggregate trade restrictions (MATR) using data from the International Monetary Fund's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is strongly correlated with existing measures of trade restrictiveness but is more comprehensive in...
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We study nominal GDP targeting as optimal monetary policy in a model with a credit market friction following Azariadis, Bullard, Singh and Suda (2018), henceforth ABSS. As in ABSS, the macroeconomy we study has considerable income inequality which gives rise to a large private sector credit...
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to the elimination of tariffs and cuts in non-tariff measures by 25%, is in the range of 1% to 4% of initial consumption …, depending on the parameterization. The welfare gain increases in the elasticity of substitution between domestic and foreign …
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negative direct effect of US tariffs on US imports from China, but (2) do not find evidence for significant short-run trade …
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We examine the effects of reorganizing electricity markets on ca- pacity investments, retail prices and welfare when … wholesale trade, and (iii) sep- arated duopoly with wholesale trade. Assuming that wholesale prices can react to changes in … retail prices (but not vice versa), we find that generators install sufficient capacity to serve retail demand in each market …
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We examine welfare e ffects of real-time pricing in electricity markets. Before stochastic energy demand is known … electricity generators compete in a uniform price auction to satisfy demand from retailers acting on behalf of subscribed … increase welfare since risk-averse consumers dislike uncertain and high prices arising through market power. In the Bertrand …
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