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We examine the role of non-economic partnerships in promoting international economic exchange. Since far-sighted countries are more willing to join costly international partnerships such as environmental treaties, environmental engagement tends to encourage international lending. Countries with...
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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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We consider a 3 country world in which each country's import market is served by competing exporters from its 2 trading …
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other pacific countries are included, China is notable for its exclusion from the process thus far. This paper uses … numerical simulation methods to assess the potential effects of a TPP agreement on China and the other participating countries …. Simulation results reveal that China will be hurt by TPP initiatives, but the negative effects are relatively small given the …
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Energy security is the ability of households, businesses, and government to accommodate disruptions in supply in energy markets. This survey considers the economic dimensions of energy security, political and other non-economic security concerns and discusses policy approaches that could enhance...
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This paper discusses U.S. energy policy and the associated evolution of energy supply, energy demand, energy prices and the industrial organization of the domestic energy industries during the period 1991 through 2000. This period covers the last two years of the George H. W. Bush administration...
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incentives. In particular, I make a rough calculation of the impact of tax incentives for domestic oil production on world oil … supply and prices and find that the incentives for domestic production have negligible impact on world supply or prices … despite the United States being the third largest oil producing country in the world. Finally, I present results from a model …
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geopolitical factors. Using data on foreign reserves of 19 countries before World War I, for which the currency composition of … hypothetical scenario where the U.S. withdraws from the world, our estimates suggest that long-term U.S. interest rates could rise …
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We explore the principal trends that are shaping the future landscape of energy supply, demand, and trade. We take a long-term view, assessing trends on the time scale of a generation by looking 25 years into the past, taking stock of the current situation, and projecting 25 years into the...
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China and India. Most projections show energy demand growing as much or more in absolute terms to 2040 than previous multi …
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