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International Organizations and Structural Reforms

Galiani, Sebastian - 2015

Different countries have been following different reform paths since the early 1990s. We develop a simple dynamic model of policy reform that captures some of the determinants that underlie these differences. The model emphasizes the interaction between domestic institutions and international...

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Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2010

This paper provides model-based estimates of the value of oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The …

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Probability Assessments of an Ice-Free Arctic : Comparing Statistical and Climate Model Projections

Diebold, Francis X.; Rudebusch, Glenn D. - 2022

The downward trend in the amount of Arctic sea ice has a wide range of environmental and economic consequences … provide statistical forecasts of Arctic sea ice extent during the rest of this century. The best fitting statistical model … global climate models foresee a gradual slowing of Arctic sea ice loss even in scenarios with high carbon emissions. Our long …

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The WTO : Theory and Practice

Bagwell, Kyle - 2010

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent developments in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. And we describe the GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its historical antecedents. We suggest that the...

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Self Enforcing Voting in International Organizations

Maggi, Giovanni; Morelli, Massimo - 2021

Some international organizations are governed by unanimity rule, some others by a majority system. Still others have moved from one system to the other over time. The existing voting models, which generally assume that decisions made by voting are perfectly enforceable, have a difficult time...

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The Role of International Organizations in the Bretton Woods System

Dominguez, Kathryn M.E - 2021

This paper examines the roles played by organizations in maintaining the Bretton Woods System. Theory indicates that even if countries understand that cooperation will lead them to a Pareto superior outcome, they need not cooperate unless they are convinced that other countries are also...

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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Qian, Nancy - 2010

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...

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China and the Tpp : A Numerical Simulation Assessment of the Effects Involved

Li, Chunding - 2012

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new negotiation on cross border liberalization of goods and service flows going beyond WTO disciplines and focused on issues such as regulation and border controls. Though the US, Australia and other pacific countries are included, China is notable for...

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International Policy Coordination : The Long View

Eichengreen, Barry - 2013

This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...

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The International Monetary System : Living with Asymmetry

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2013

This paper analyzes current stresses in the two key areas that concerned the architects of the original Bretton Woods system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they...

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