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A Study of Exclusionary Coalitions : The Canadian Sugar Coalition, 1888–1889
Asker, John - 2019
In this paper we examine exclusion accomplished by a coalition of firms--frequently, a coalition of suppliers and customers--that share the benefits of exclusion. As a particular historical example, we study the Canadian sugar industry of the 1880s, which was controlled by a complex coalition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479805
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Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil's Alternative Energy Program
Weidenmier, Marc D. - 2008
The recent world energy crisis raises serious questions about the extent to which the United States should increase … experiment. Brazil has reduced its share of imported oil more than any other major economy in the world in the last 30 years … oil production and (2) developing one of the world's largest and most competitive sources of renewable energy -- sugarcane …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464277
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The Political Economy of Controls : American Sugar
Krueger, Anne O. - 1988
This paper outlines the salient characteristics of competing models of economic regulation and controls. It then examines the evolution of the American sugar program from 1934 to 1987 in the light of these models. While lobbying and other features of traditional models were clearly important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476562
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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating
Dippel, Christian - 2015
In economies with a large informal sector firms can increase profits by reducing workers' outside options in that informal sector. We formalize this idea in a simple model of an agricultural economy with plantation owners who lobby the government to enact coercive policies--e.g. the eviction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457708
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Tariff Incidence : Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2014
the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458030
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The Future of EMU : What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?
Bordo, Michael D. - 1999
The creation of EMU and the ECB has triggered a discussion of the future of EMU. Independent observers have pointed to a number of shortcomings or hazard areas' in the construction of EMU, such as the absence of a central lender of last resort function for EMU, the lack of a central authority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471419
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Import Diversion under European Antidumping Policy
Vandenbussche, Hylke - 1999
This paper is the first to study empirically the effects of European antidumping actions on import diversion from importers 'named' in an antidumping investigation, and potentially subject to protectionist measures, to countries not named' in the investigation. For this purpose we use a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471444
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Price Stability as a Target for Monetary Policy : Defining and Maintaining Price Stability
Svensson, Lars E.O. - 1999
This paper discusses how price stability can be defined and how price stability can be maintained in practice. Some lessons for the Eurosystem are also considered. With regard to defining price stability, the choice between price-level stability and low (including zero) inflation and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471507
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The International Transmission and Effects of Fiscal Policies
Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1986
In recent years the world economy has been subject to large and unsyncronized changes in fiscal policies, high and … builds on a two-country model of the world economy which is applied to the analysis of the transmission and effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477278
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The "New" Economics of Trade Agreements : From Trade Liberalization to Regulatory Convergence?
Grossman, Gene M. - 2019
What incentives do governments have to negotiate "new trade agreements," i.e., agreements that constrain not only governments' choices of tariffs, but also their domestic regulatory policies? We focus on horizontal product standards, i.e., those that impose requirements along a horizontal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480078