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Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters
Demidova, Svetlana A. - 2009
This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767215
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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels
Kaiser, William - 2014
In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039856
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Conservation : From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2013
This paper investigates how concern for the environment translates into predictable patterns of consumer behavior. Two types of behavior are considered. First, individuals who care about environmental quality may voluntarily restrain their consumption of goods and services that generate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753733
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Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies
Leeper, Eric M. - 2011
Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129132
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Japanese Government Debt and Sustainability of Fiscal Policy
Doi, Takero - 2011
analyze the sustainability of the fiscal policy. We pursue three approaches to examine the sustainability. First, we calculate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121087
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Fiscal Stability of High-Debt Nations Under Volatile Economic Conditions
Hall, Robert E. - 2013
Using a recursive empirical model of the real interest rate, GDP growth, and the primary government deficit in the U.S., I solve for the ergodic distribution of the debt/GDP ratio. If such a distribution exists, the government is satisfying its intertemporal budget constraint. One key finding is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087045
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A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (Sam) : Safety Traps and Economic Policy
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2013
The global economy has a chronic shortage of safe assets which lies behind many recent macroeconomic imbalances. This paper provides a simple model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM), its recessionary safety traps, and its policy antidotes. Safety traps share many common features with...
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Game Over : Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy
Evans, Richard W. - 2014
Fiscal sustainability is one of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Yet it remains difficult to quantify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064889
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What is a Sustainable Public Debt?
D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2015
traditional approach to evaluate debt sustainability, and examine three alternative approaches that provide useful econometric and … model-simulation tools to analyze debt sustainability. The first approach is Bohn's non-structural empirical framework based … three approaches to analyze debt sustainability in the United States and Europe after the recent surge in public debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015096
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An Analysis of Puerto Rico's Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability
Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo - 2018
was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …
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