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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation

Chatterji, Shurojit - 2009

We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...

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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas

Dong, Yan - 2008

This paper discusses both the potential contribution that trade policy initiatives can make towards the achievement of significant global carbon emissions reduction and the potential impacts of proposals now circulating for carbon reduction motivated geographical trade arrangements, including...

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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008

Shen, Keting - 2015

Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large percentage increases in Chinese patent applications, and equally large increases in college registrants and completed PhDs (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little...

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Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the US? : A Comparison of China -US Industrial Concentration Ratios

Wang, Jun - 2014

We present estimates of 4 and 8 firm concentration ratios by industry and in weighted aggregate form for the manufacturing sector for Chinese enterprises for 2002 and 2007. These are then compared to available estimates for the same years and industrial classification for the US. These...

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The Potential Global and Developing Country Impacts of Alternative Emission Cuts and Accompanying Mechanisms for the Post Copenhagen Process

Tian, Huifang - 2010

for reductions by China, India, Russia, Brazil, US, EU, Japan and a residual Row. Given the damage estimates we use all …

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China's New Regional Trade Agreements

Antkiewicz, Agata - 2004

WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in …

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Changes in the Structure of Wages : The U.S. versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1989

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since … wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In contrast to the large expansion in experience differentials for high … and college graduates in Japan from 1979 to 1987. Macroeconomic factors (increased openness, trade deficits, and labor …

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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments

Dong, Yan - 2009

In our numerical simulation analyses border tax adjustments accompany carbon emission reduction commitments made either unilaterally , or as part of a global treaty and to be applied against non signatories. We use a four-region (US, EU, China, ROW) general equilibrium structure which captures...

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Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments

Tian, Huifang - 2009

Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC negotiations in Copenhagen, any emission reduction targets they take on should be based on their intensity of emissions (emissions/$GDP) on a target date not the level of emissions. They...

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Global Financial Structure and Climate Change

Whalley, John - 2009

This paper analyzes the medium to long-term implications of global warming for the evolution of global financial structures. Stern (2007) and other related scientific literature reports that greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activities will very possibly lead to global temperature...

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