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Fair agreements for sharing international rivers with multiple springs and externalities

Brink, René van den; Laan, Gerard van der; Moes, Nigel - 2010

satiable agents, i.e., the benefit function is decreasing beyond some satiation point. In such situations externalities appear … has an increasing benefit function (no externalities) then every weighted hierarchical solution is core-stable. In case of … satiation points, it appears that every weighted hierarchical solution is independent of the externalities. …

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The external cruising costs of parking

Inci, Eren; Ommeren, Jos van; Kobus, Martijn B. W. - 2015

Existing work emphasizes the importance of traffic congestion externalities, but typically ignores cruising …-for-parking externalities. We introduce a novel methodology to estimate the marginal external cruising costs of parking. The level of cruising …

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Accident externality of driving : evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Tang, Cheng Keat; Ommeren, Jos van - 2020

This paper estimates the marginal accident externality of driving in Central London by exploiting variation in traffic flow induced by the London Congestion Charge Zone using an instrumental variable approach. The charge attributed to a 9.4% reduction in traffic flow, which resulted in a less...

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Competition policy in an open economy

Francois, Joseph F.; Horn, Henrik - 1998 - Rev.

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to the goals of competition policy (suchas the degree and nature of competition). The issues we address involve thegeneral equilibrium distributional effects of competition...

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Endogenous quality effects of trade policy

Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 1999

We study the optimal trade policy against a foreign oligopoly withendogenous quality. We show that, under the Most Favoured Nation(MFN) clause, a uniform tariff policy is always welfare improvingover the free trade equilibrium. However, a nonuniform tariff policyis always desirable on welfare...

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Trade policy of transition economics

Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2000

This paper focuses on ignored issues regarding the impact of trade reforms in transition economies. These economies are primarily characterized by a low quality of their products, large depreciations of their currencies, and a high degree of government intervention in economic activity. These...

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Business cycles, the current account, and administered protection in Mexico

Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - 2003

Antidumping actions in the United States and EU are knownto be linked to macroeconomic conditions. In part, this is becausepositive injury findings may be easier to make in a downturn. Weexplore the evidence for Mexico, one of the main new antidumpingusing countries. Injury determination is also...

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Political influence in a new antidumping regime : evidence from Mexico

Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - 2004

We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s antidumping regime, considering both the characteristics of target countries subject to antidumping duties and industry-specific factors for sectors receiving protection. Our results are broadly consistent with the recent theoretical...

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Household inequality, welfare, and the setting of trade policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions in a general...

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Unilateralism in a multilateral world

Ethier, Wilfred - 2001

This paper addresses the interplay between unilateralism and multilateralism. I first describe theirrespective stylized facts. I next present a simple, multi-country model with high initial tariffbarriers and with the features that have always been of paramount concern to policymakers,...

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