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Disentangling the wage impacts of offshoring on a developing country : theory and policy
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2016
The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories in developing countries? Using a parsimonious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480815
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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
downstream as an integral part of trade agreements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471205
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Biofuel subsidies : an open-economy analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Wall, … - 2009
We present a general equilibrium analysis of biofuel subsidies in an open-economy context. In the small-country case, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on crude is not available as a policy option, however, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920242
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Then and now : reflections on two Australian mining booms
Gregory, Robert G. - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408694
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The home market shadow
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2005
The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the newʺ theory of international trade, but it is uncertain whether this effect survives if one moves beyond the simplifying setup with only two countries. We present a three-country version of the seminal model by Krugman (1980) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002551226
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Trade and child labor : a general equilibrium analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the goods is a non-traded good. We find that under quasi-linear preferences the effect of the terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002658230
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North-South technology spillovers : the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...
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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342436
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International trade and labor markets: evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt
Robertson, Raymond; Vergara Bahena, Mexico Alberto; … - 2021
, although it signed several trade agreements. The lack of trade-related improvements in labor market outcomes - including … two possibilities. First, it is possible that trade agreements did not produce the same increase in trade for Egypt as for … hypotheses. Using a gravity model approach, the results suggest that the changes in Egypt's exports following trade agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519276
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Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people
Mayer, Thierry; Rapoport, Hillel; Umana-Dajud, Camilo - 2024
Using provisions to ease the movement of business visitors in trade agreements, we show that removing barriers to the … movement of business people promotes trade. We document the increasing complexity of Free Trade Agreements and develop an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486333