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Designing Policies to Open Trade
Feenstra, Robert C.; Lewis, Tracy R.; McMillan, John - 2021
In this paper we consider recent proposals to auction U.S. import quotas. using the funds so obtained to encourage … critical factor in understanding these policies. In a world or full information, it makes little sense to use auction quotas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226082
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Auctioning U.S. Import Quotas, Foreign Response, and Alternative Policies
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2021
drop in foreign producer surplus relative to free trade. Previous estimates of auction revenue are in the range of $3 7 … auction revenue is $1 3-2.15 billion, and the foreign loss is $0.5-O.7 billion relative to free trade. One alternative to … auction quotas is a system of tariff-rate quotas, which are designed to keep supplier countries welfare equal to that in free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235296
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Designing Policies to Open Trade
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1990
In this paper we consider recent proposals to auction U.S. import quotas. using the funds so obtained to encourage … critical factor in understanding these policies. In a world or full information, it makes little sense to use auction quotas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475779
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Auctioning U.S. Import Quotas, Foreign Response, and Alternative Policies
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1989
drop in foreign producer surplus relative to free trade. Previous estimates of auction revenue are in the range of $3 7 … auction revenue is $1 3-2.15 billion, and the foreign loss is $0.5-O.7 billion relative to free trade. One alternative to … auction quotas is a system of tariff-rate quotas, which are designed to keep supplier countries welfare equal to that in free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476217
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Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
The recent literature on quid pro quo foreign direct investment (FDI) suggests that FDI may be induced by the threat of protection, and further, that FDI may be used as an instrument to defuse a protectionist threat. This paper uses a panel data set of 4-digit SIC level observations of Japanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104882
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Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality
Heutel, Garth - 2013
Prior research demonstrates that mortality rates increase during economic booms and decrease during economic busts, but little analysis has been conducted investigating the role of environmental risks as potential mechanisms for this relationship. We investigate the contribution of air pollution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083393
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Pricing to Market, Staggered Contracts, and Real Exchange Rate Persistence
Bergin, Paul R. - 1999
This paper offers an explanation for the persistence observed in real exchange rate movements. The model combines pricing to market behavior with sticky prices generated by staggered contracts. A translog preference structure is sued to enhance both features. The paper finds that openness limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471774
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Shackling the Identification Police?
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2018
This paper examines potential tradeoffs between research methods in answering important questions versus providing more cleanly identified estimates on problems that are potentially of lesser interest. The strengths and limitations of experimental and quasi-experimental methods are discussed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907123
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2010
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762600
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Pricing to Market, Staggered Contracts, and Real Exchange Rate Persistence
Bergin, Paul R. - 2010
This paper offers an explanation for the persistence observed in real exchange rate movements. The model combines pricing to market behavior with sticky prices generated by staggered contracts. A translog preference structure is sued to enhance both features. The paper finds that openness limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763338