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A Study of Exclusionary Coalitions : The Canadian Sugar Coalition, 1888–1889
Asker, John - 2019
In this paper we examine exclusion accomplished by a coalition of firms—frequently, a coalition of suppliers and customers—that share the benefits of exclusion. As a particular historical example, we study the Canadian sugar industry of the 1880s, which was controlled by a complex coalition...
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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating
Dippel, Christian - 2015
In economies with a large informal sector firms can increase profits by reducing workers' outside options in that informal sector. We formalize this idea in a simple model of an agricultural economy with plantation owners who lobby the government to enact coercive policies—e.g. the eviction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027691
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Tariff Incidence : Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2014
the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044624
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Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil's Alternative Energy Program
Weidenmier, Marc - 2015
The recent world energy crisis raises serious questions about the extent to which the United States should increase … experiment. Brazil has reduced its share of imported oil more than any other major economy in the world in the last 30 years … oil production and (2) developing one of the world's largest and most competitive sources of renewable energy -- sugarcane …
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The Political Economy of Controls : American Sugar
Krueger, Anne O. - 2021
This paper outlines the salient characteristics of competing models of economic regulation and controls. It then examines the evolution of the American sugar program from 1934 to 1987 in the light of these models. While lobbying and other features of traditional models were clearly important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229366
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Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the Crisis : An Update
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2010
We update Rose and Spiegel (2009a, b) and search for simple quantitative models of macroeconomic and financial indicators of the "Great Recession" of 2008-09. We use a cross-country approach and examine a number of potential causes that have been found to be successful indicators of crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139743
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Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy : The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
Holland, Stephen P. - 2011
Instead of efficiently pricing greenhouse gases, policy makers have favored measures that implicitly or explicitly subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies currently in use: ethanol subsidies, a renewable fuel standard (RFS),...
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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-Emu Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015976
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772728
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Participation in a Currency Union
Casella, Alessandra - 2008
When countries of different sizes participate in a cooperative agreement, the potential gain from deviation determines the minimum power that each country requires in the common decision-making. lt;brgt;lt;bRgt;This paper studies the problem in the context of a monetary union - multiple...
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