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Lifting Economic Sanctions on Iran : Global Effects and Strategic Responses
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017
This paper uses a global general equilibrium simulation model to quantify the effects of lifting economic sanctions on Iran with and without strategic responses. Iran benefits the most, with average per capita welfare gains ranging from close to 3 percent, in the case when Iran's crude oil...
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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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Growth of Global Corporate Debt : Main Facts and Policy Challenges
Abraham, Facundo - 2020
This paper surveys the literature to document the main stylized facts, risks, and policy challenges related to the expansion of global nonfinancial corporate debt after the 2008–09 global financial crisis. Nonfinancial corporate debt steadily increased after the crisis, especially in emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823367
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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 …
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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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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym - 2017
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974965