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Trade Barrier Volatility and Domestic Price Stabilization : Evidence from Agriculture
Anderson, Kym - 2017
-- the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade … to raise their import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World … through new World Trade Organization rules could help alleviate the extent to which government responses to exogenous price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976237
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Did the intergenerational solidarity pact increase the employment rate of older workers in Belgium? : a macro-econometric evaluation
Dejemeppe, Muriel; Smith, Catherine; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2015
In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aiming at increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist in a pension bonus, reductions in employers' social security contributions and measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283130
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Trade Effects of the New Silk Road : A Gravity Analysis
Baniya, Suprabha - 2019
This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895212
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The impact of macroprudential policies on capital flows in CESEE
Eller, Markus; Hauzenberger, Niko; Huber, Florian; … - 2021
In line with the recent policy discussion on the use of macroprudential measures to respond to crossborder risks arising from capital flows, this paper tries to quantify to what extent macroprudential policies (MPPs) have been able to stabilize capital flows in Central, Eastern and Southeastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510734
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EU competition law: an unaffordable luxury in times of crisis?
Massey, Patrick; McDowell, Moore - 2020
The paper looks at two aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. These are (i) the nature of this event and its implication for evaluating past policy and policy into the future, and (ii) the suitability of proposed changes in the implementation of competition policy affecting firm behaviour, market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221295
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Trust in the time of corona
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239442
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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses
Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020
The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic inequalities. In this paper we provide a framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214250
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Intergenerational ties and case fatality rates : a cross-country analysis
Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2020
COVID-19 is spreading and has reached the state of a worldwide pandemic and health systems are or will be tested in how they can deal with it. So far, during this early phase of the pandemic, outcomes in terms of case-fatality rates (CFR) differ widely across countries. We explore how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199226
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How Do Governments Respond to Food Price Spikes? Lessons from the Past
Anderson, Kym - 2017
trade between nations can play in bringing stability to the world?s food markets. More effort appears to be needed before a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976397
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Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2021
This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in import exposure on manufacturing employment at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670656