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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty

Anderson, Kym - 2013

impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The analysis finds that the … actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net effect was to increase … global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different from zero. The paper …

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Dumping and Double Crossing : The (In)Effectiveness of Cost-Based Trade Policy Under Incomplete Information

Kolev, Dobrin R. - 1999

We argue that the rise of antidumping protection and the proliferation of voluntary export restraints are fundamentally inter-related. We show that both can be explained by a cost-based definition of dumping when the domestic government has incomplete information about the foreign firm's costs....

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What Do Voluntary Export Restraints Do?

Krishna, Kala - 1988

This paper has two aims. First, to examine alternative ways of modeling VERS in imperfectly competitive markets. This is important, since the. effects of VERS are sensitive to the models used. Second, to argue that the effects of VERS also depend on whether goods are complements or Substitutes....

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Economic and Policy Uncertainty : Export Dynamics and the Value of Agreements

Carballo, Jeronimo - 2018

We examine the interaction of economic and policy uncertainty in a dynamic, heterogeneous firms model. Uncertainty about foreign income, trade protection and their interaction dampens export investment. This can be mitigated by trade agreements, which are particularly valuable in periods of...

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Comments on Obstfeld and Rogoff's "The Six Major Puzzles in International Macroeconomics : Is There a Common Cause?"

Engel, Charles - 2000

The paper offers comments on Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000). The comments primarily focus on three issues: (a) How do we reconcile the numerical examples of OR, which show quantitatively plausible resolutions to the major puzzles arising from costs of trade, with previous studies that have found...

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The Six Major Puzzles in International Macroeconomics : Is There a Common Cause?

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2000

The central claim in this paper is that by explicitly introducing costs of international trade (narrowly, transport costs but more broadly, tariffs, nontariff barriers and other trade costs), one can go far toward explaining a great number of the main empirical puzzles that international...

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Have Falling Tariffs and Transportation Costs Raised U.S. Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan E. - 2000

A number of studies have tried to gauge the effect of international trade on the rising U.S. skill premium by examining whether product prices in unskill-intensive sectors have fallen relative to prices in skill-intensive sectors. However, these studies do not estimate what share of domestic...

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Aggregate Land Rents and Aggregate Transport Costs

Arnott, Richard J. - 1980

This paper explores the relationship between aggregate land rents and aggregate transport costs for land markets in which locations differ solely in terms of accessibility. That there exists a relationship between land rents and transport costs has been recognized at least since the time of von...

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The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Jedwab, Remi - 2020

Previous work on transportation investments has focused on average impacts in high- and middle-income countries. We estimate average and heterogeneous effects in a poor continent, Africa, using roads and cities data spanning 50 years in 39 countries. Using changes in market access due to distant...

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Transaction Cost Regulation

Spiller, Pablo T. - 2011

This paper discusses the fundamental underpinnings and some implications of transaction cost regulation (TCR), a framework to analyze the interaction between governments and investors fundamentally, but not exclusively, in utility industries. TCR sees regulation as the governance structure of...

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