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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269504
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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty
Chau, Nancy; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015498
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777139
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Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2004
This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ?new economic geography? model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is ?bubbleshaped?, i.e. it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262068
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration … results show that the welfare impact of observed levels of migration is substantial, at about 5 to 10% for the main receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279236
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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms: The role of country asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - 2010
improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278499
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A global view of cross-border migration
Di Giovanni, Julia; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - 2012
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration … results show that the welfare impact of observed levels of migration is substantial, at about 5 to 10% for the main receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282334
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Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ‘new economic geography’ model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is “bubbleshaped”,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700894
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Enlarging the EMU to the East: What Effects on Trade?
Belke, Ansgar; Spies, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822129
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Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza
Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822305