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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022

This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...

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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...

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A review of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency technologies

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - 2014

Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...

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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

by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories … increase or decrease in the developing world as a result of a reduction in offshoring costs. Since global welfare always rises …

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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19

Naudé, Wim - 2020

the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …

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Digital and competing information sources : impact on environmental concern and prospects for cooperation

Udalov, Vladimir; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017

the World Value Survey (WVS), the main purpose of our analysis is to investigate the effect of different information …

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Trade and capital flows: substitutes or complements? : an empirical investigation

Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2019

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...

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An unemployment insurance scheme for the Euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the...

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Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world

Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013

Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...

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The effect of changes in alcohol tax differentials on alcohol consumption

Gehrsitz, Markus; Saffer, Henry; Grossman, Michael - 2020

We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits and wine taxes were raised sharply and unexpectedly in...

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