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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

This paper examines the effects of the U.S. shale oil boom in a two-country DSGE model where countries produce crude oil, refined oil products, and a non-oil good. The model incorporates different types of crude oil that are imperfect substitutes for each other as inputs into the refining...

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Counterfeit-Product Trade

Grossman, Gene M.; Shapiro, Carl - 2021

We analyze a two-country model of trade in both legitimate and counterfeit products. Domestic firms own trademarks and establish reputations for delivering high-quality products in a steady-state equilibrium. Foreign suppliers export legitimate low-quality merchandise and counterfeits of...

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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise

Markusen, James R.; Rutherford, Thomas F.; Tarr, David G. - 2022

Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...

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Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade Policy : Do They Matter to the Political Economy of the Lumber Dispute?

Kalt, Joseph P. - 2021

For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood lumber. Through three successive rounds of administrative litigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. sawmill industry has sought to have countervailing duties...

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The Impact of Trade on Inequality in Developing Countries

Pavcnik, Nina - 2017

This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes inequality and poverty through its …

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Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Education : Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Mbiti, Isaac M. - 2018

We present results from a large-scale randomized experiment across 350 schools in Tanzania that studied the impact of …

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Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption : Evidence from Northern Tanzania

Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2018

In this paper, we quantify market access in rural Tanzania, and the extent to which it constrains agricultural …,183 villages in two regions of Tanzania. We find that a village in the 90th percentile of the travel-cost adjusted price …

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Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints

Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2021

the effects of these shocks. Using panel data from a survey in Tanzania, we find that both relationships are significant …

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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa

Rainer, Ilia - 2012

The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...

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An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania

Comin, Diego - 2012

Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania …, Tanzania receives very few tourists and revenues from tourism. To explore the determinants of this performance, I conduct an … that hotels in the safari area in Tanzania are more expensive than comparable hotels, and that this difference in price …

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