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Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements
Kellenberg, Derek - 2013
Many of the world's environmental problems cross international borders, and to address those problems approximately 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074298
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How Do the "Gats-Plus" and "Gats-Minus" Characteristics of Regional Service Agreements Affect Trade in Services?
Zhou, Nianli - 2014
Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" have become the distinctive characteristics of the service RTAs and this paper aims to investigate and distinguish the different effect of the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046089
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Assessing the Effects of the Mfa/Atc from Us and World Trade Data after its Removal
Yao, Daqing - 2015
In this paper we assess the effects of the MFA/ATC using both world trade and US data after its removal. Previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020701
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Country Heterogeneity and the International Evidence on the Effects of Fiscal Policy
Favero, Carlo A. - 2011
This paper shows how the richer frequency and variety of fiscal policy shocks available in an international sample can be analyzed recognizing the heterogeneity that exists across different countries. The main conclusion of our empirical analysis is that the question "what is the fiscal policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121730
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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014
International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. We construct country-level measures of teacher cognitive skills using unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040536
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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
Dippel, Christian - 2017
Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960515
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Costa, Rui - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868489
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The Carbon Abatement Game
Hambel, Christoph - 2018
Climate change is one of the major global challenges. Mitigating its impact is however bedeviled by free-rider problems and external effects. We thus study the problem of optimal carbon abatement in a dynamic non-cooperative game-theoretical setting involving multiple countries that are open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918643
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The U.S. Shale Oil Boom, the Oil Export Ban, and the Economy : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Cakir Melek, Nida - 2017
for the U.S. and the rest of the world (ROW). We investigate the implications of a significant increase in U.S. light …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947648
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Why Do Estimates of the Emu Effect on Trade Vary so Much?
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2016
Larger data sets, with more countries and a longer span of time, exhibit systematically larger effects of European monetary union on trade. I establish this stylized fact with meta-analysis and confirm it by estimating a plain-vanilla gravity model. I then explain this finding by examining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982516