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An economic interpretation of Epictetus's precept of 'Taking away aversion from all things not in our power' consists of extending the do- main of indifference beyond its boundaries under non-ethical preferences, so as to yield indifference between outcomes differing only on things out- side...
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Climate challenge can be modelled as a multiplayer prisoner's dilemma where any ecological action - i.e., purchasing an electric car or adopting sustainable life styles - is a costly action in terms of economic resources, time, and effort for individuals. According to the well-known embedded...
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Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable … pattern of trade between varieties and output per variety, which is indeterminate in a standard single good Dixit …
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- innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of … concentration and dominance, and the multilateral trade system had been buckling under pressure from a return to mercantilist ideas … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for …
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migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the …. In case of trade restriction, however, the rise or fall in unemployment depends on both the structure of the economy and …
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This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local …
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Using a panel of MENA countries, this paper tries to examine the interaction between trade reforms and labor market … regulations on the outcome of the labor market. The theoretical predictions on this literature show that the effects of trade … liberalization in any given country are conditional on the nature of labor market regulations since trade liberalization is more …
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This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content …
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issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of education and North-South trade-related technology diffusion (NRD …
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I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant … of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT. The growth in IT imports from China is associated with … from the fall in IT prices can be attributed to the trade with China. …
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