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Putting Global Governance in its Place
Rodrik, Dani - 2019
In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed to be an argument for greater global governance, but the logic requires scrutiny. There remains strong revealed demand for policy and institutional diversity among nations,...
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Biodiversity Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The use of private capital to finance biodiversity conservation and restoration is a new practice in sustainable … finance. This study sheds light on this new practice. First, we provide a conceptual framework that lays out how biodiversity … types of financing is the "monetization" of biodiversity, that is, the extent to which investments in biodiversity can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247943
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On the Economics of Extinction and Mass Extinctions
Taylor, Michael Scott; Weder, Rolf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
concerns over the extent and rate of biodiversity loss have led to renewed interest in extinction outcomes and speculation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447273
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The Economics of Biodiversity Loss
Giglio, Stefano; Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how …, which depends, among other things, on the distribution of biodiversity losses across ecosystem functions. We discuss how … these fragility measures can help policymakers assess the risks induced by biodiversity loss and prioritize conservation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635641
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The WTO : Theory and Practice
Bagwell, Kyle - 2009
We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent developments in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. And we describe the GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its historical antecedents. We suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463204
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The Purpose of Trade Agreements
Grossman, Gene M. - 2016
This paper reviews the literature on governments' motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the paper focuses on the purpose of multilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456604
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Post-Neoliberal Globalization : International Trade Rules for Global Prosperity
Guzman, Martín; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper analyzes frameworks for the design of the rules for international trading, assuming that it is possible to have some rule of law. In the Arrow-Debreu benchmark, where there is no economic power and political power is seemingly irrelevant, there is no need for trade agreements - free...
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Fragmentation and Trade in Value Added over Four Decades
Johnson, Robert C. - 2012
We combine data on trade, production, and input use to compute the value added content of trade for forty-two countries from 1970 to 2009. For the world, the ratio of value added to gross trade falls by ten to fifteen percentage points, with two-thirds of this decline in the last two decades....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460474
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China's Potential Future Growth and Gains from Trade Policy Bargaining : Some Numerical Simulation Results
Li, Chunding - 2012
Numerical simulation analysis of bargaining solutions is little developed in existing literature. Here we use a multi country, single period numerical general equilibrium model which captures China and her major trading partners and examine the outcomes of trade policy bargaining solutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460832
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The Empire Project : Trade Policy in Interwar Canada
Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyze the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287339