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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Orden, David - 1994
This paper evaluates the influence of diverse U.S. agricultural interest groups on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were converted to tariffs in January 1994 and all tariffs...
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Using Bid Rotation and Incumbency to Detect Collusion : A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Ortner, Juan M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Cartels participating in procurement auctions frequently use bid rotation or prioritize incumbents to allocate contracts. However, establishing a link between observed allocation patterns and firm conduct has been difficult: there are cost-based competitive explanations for such patterns. We...
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Ohio School Milk Markets : An Analysis of Bidding
Porter, Robert H. - 1997
We examine the institutional details of the school milk procurement process, bidding data, statements of dairy executives, and supply characteristics in Ohio during the 1980's. We compare the bidding behavior of a group of firms to a control group. We find that the behavior of each of the firms...
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The Price Impact of Joining a Currency Union : Evidence from Latvia
Cavallo, Alberto - 2014
consumption goods. We consider the case of Latvia, which recently dropped its pegged exchange rate and joined the euro zone. We … between Latvia and euro zone countries collapsed swiftly following entry to the euro. The percentage of goods with nearly … identical prices in Latvia and Germany increased from 6 percent to 89 percent. The median size of price differentials declined …
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Green Taxes and Administrative Costs : The Case of Carbon Taxation
Smulders, Sjak - 1999
This paper explores the trade-off between incentive effects and administrative costs associated with the implementation of various environmental tax instruments, with special reference to carbon taxes. In a simple model, we show under what conditions it is optimal to use input rather than...
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Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and the Nordic Countries : 1900-2003
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
The extent of social expenditures in the U.S. and the Nordic Countries is compared in the early 1900s and again in the early 2000s. The common view that America spends much less on social welfare than the Nordic countries does not survive closer inspection when we consider the differences in the...
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Policy vs. Consumer Pressure : Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry
Popp, David - 2007
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, concern over dioxin in both paper products and wastewater led to the development of techniques that reduced the use of chlorine in the pulp industry. Both regulatory and consumer pressure motivated this change. We use patent data to examine the evolution of two...
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Taxation and Market Work : Is Scandinavia an Outlier?
Rogerson, Richard - 2007
This paper argues that it is essential to explicitly consider how the government spends tax revenues when assessing the effects of tax rates on aggregate hours of market work. Different forms of government spending imply different elasticities of hours of work with regard to tax rates. I...
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Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era : Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
Steckel, Richard H. - 2001
This essay places the debate over human welfare during industrialization in the context of very long-term economic developments by examining an important aspect of living standards--health and nutrition--since the Middle Ages. I use average stature determined from military records along with a...
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Open Economy Forces and Late 19th Century Scandinavian Catch-Up
O'Rourke, Kevin - 1995
Scandinavia recorded very high growth rates between 1870 and 1914, catching up with the leaders. This paper estimates that about two-thirds of the Scandinavian catching up on Britain was due to the open economy forces of global factor and commodity market integration. All of the Scandinavian...
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