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Anti-Competitive and Rent-Shifting Aspects of Domestic-Content Provisions in Regional Trade Blocks
Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; Markusen, James R.; … - 2021
demand for the substitute domestic inputs falls (the scale effect of reduced output outweighs a substitution effect in favor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230380
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the Us-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala; Morgan, John - 2022
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms
Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - 2022
We characterize what features make supply chains more resilient. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we identify firms with larger supplier risk following the Covid-19 lockdowns. Using an event-study design we find firms with suppliers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241293
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Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort : Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?
Yin, Haitao - 2009
This paper examines whether risk-based pricing promotes risk-reducing effort. Such mechanisms are common in private insurance markets, but are rarely incorporated in government assurance programs. We analyze accidental underground fuel tank leaks--a source of environmental damage to water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158694
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The Evolving Market for Catastrophic Event Risk
Froot, Kenneth - 2012
This paper discusses the recent changes in the market for catastrophe risk. These risks have traditionally been distributed through the insurance and reinsurance systems. However, because insurance companies tend to share relatively small amounts of their cat exposures and because insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756006
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Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition
Mayer, Thierry - 2016
We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … multiproduct firms and derive the specific demand conditions needed to generate these product-mix reallocations. These demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986299
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Import Competition and Macro Economic Adjustment Under Wage-Price Rigidity
Bruno, Michael - 2021
in terms of demand management and exchange rate (or tariff) policy as well as supply management are analyzed. The theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312525
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Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor
Eli, Shari - 2015
patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012388
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Corporate Demand for Insurance : an Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks
Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2011
empirical analysis of firm behavior that compares corporate demand for property and catastrophe insurance (here, terrorism). We … combine demand and supply data and apply a simultaneous-equation approach to address the problem of endogenous premium … decisions. The main finding is that demand for property and catastrophe insurance are not very different and that the demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120307
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Inferring Risk Perceptions and Preferences Using Choice from Insurance Menus : Theory and Evidence
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli - 2015
Demand for insurance can be driven by high risk aversion or high risk. We show how to separately identify risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010289