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The Lerner Symmetry Theorem : Generalizations and Qualifications
Costinot, Arnaud - 2017
The Lerner Symmetry Theorem (Lerner, 1936) establishes the equivalence between import tariffs and export taxes in a simple neoclassical economy with two countries, two final goods, and no trade costs. In this paper we provide a number of generalizations and qualifications of this well-known...
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The Adding Up Problem : A Targeting Approach
Krishna, Kala - 2010
This paper looks at the problem of making multiple lending decisions which affect the supply of the product when the consequences of these lending decisions are interrelated via the effect on the world price of the product. This is termed the 'adding up problem'. It is argued that thinking of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763556
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The Optimal Tax on Antebellum U.S. Cotton Exports
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021
The United States produced about 80 percent of the world's cotton in the decades prior to the Civil War. How much monopoly power did the United States possess in the world cotton market and what would have been the effect of an optimal export tax? This paper estimates the elasticity of foreign...
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The Impacts of Export Taxes on Agricultural Trade
Beckman, Jayson - 2018
Export taxes, despite being applied by several countries, have not received the same scrutiny in multilateral trade negotiations as other trade barriers. This work seeks to provide more detail into the linkages between export taxes, trade, food prices, and poverty in the agriculture sector. We...
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What Accounts for the Rising Sophistication of China's Exports?
Wang, Zhi - 2010
different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human …
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Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity : A Case Study for China
Ravallion, Martin - 2015
In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China's Dibao program aims to fill all poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024145
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Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China
Chen, Zhao - 2018
We study a Chinese policy that awards substantial tax cuts to firms with R&D investment over a threshold or “notch.” Quasi-experimental variation and administrative tax data show a significant increase in reported R&D that is partly driven by firms relabeling expenses as R&D. Structural...
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127978
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Gaming in Air Pollution Data? Lessons from China
Chen, Yuyu - 2013
regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API …) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to performance evaluations of local governments. In particular, China … with two alternative measures of air pollution - namely visibility as reported by the China Meteorological Administration …
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The Effect of Air Pollution on Migration : Evidence from China
Chen, Shuai - 2017
This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the average strength of thermal … that air pollution is responsible for large changes in inflows and outflows of migration in China. More specifically, we … find that independent changes in air pollution of the magnitude that occurred in China in the course of our study (between …
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