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Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...

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Chinese Firm and Industry Reactions to Antidumping Initiations and Measures

Li, Chunding - 2010

Because of large and rapid growing export volumes and its formal status as a non-market economy; China has been the …

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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations

Dong, Yan - 2009

This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...

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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent FTAs involving ASEAN Countries

Banda, O. G. Dayaratna - 2005

We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...

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Competitive Liberalization and a US-SACU FTA

Whalley, John - 2003

such an arrangement lies in improved access to a smaller but more protected market where the EU already has preferential … arrangements, and the SACU interest lies in improved access to a much larger but less protected market. There is also a SACU …

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The Rise of Europe : Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

Acemoglu, Daron - 2002

This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of European nations with access to the Atlantic, and especially by those nations that engaged in colonialism and long distance oceanic trade. Moreover, Atlantic ports grew much...

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Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

This paper develops the thesis that credit market frictions may be an important contributor to high unemployment in … market imperfections, so unemployment rises and remains high for an extended period. The data show that there has not been … industries is lower than in the U.S.. This suggests that although credit market imperfections are unlikely to have been the major …

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The Division and Size of Gains from Liberalization of Service Networks

Bhattarai, Keshab - 1998

This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telecoms, compared to liberalization in goods. In the presence of network externalities, it argues that if two disjoint country service networks involving a small and large country are...

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The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015 : Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then...

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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals

Li, Chunding - 2014

This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...

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