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Fighting Communism Supporting Collusion
Galiani, Sebastián; Paz y Miño, José Manuel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a simple model to explain why a powerful importer country like the United States may provide political support for international collusive agreements concerning certain commodities (e.g., coffee). This behavior raises questions due to the fact that an importer country should have...
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The Economic Approach to Political Borders
Spolaore, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical studies of political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public policies as...
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Why Does the Folk Theorem Do Not Seem to Work When It Is Mostly Needed?
Caro-Burnett, Johann; Galiani, Sebastián; Torrens, Gustavo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In International Relations the canonical model of inter-estate interactions is a one-shot security competition game. The model has the structure of a prisoners dilemma, which results in an equilibrium with two sources of inefficiency: excessive arming and possibly the destruction associated with...
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Exporting Ideology : The Right and Left of Foreign Influence
Antràs, Pol; Padró i Miquel, Gerard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We present an economic rationale for countries resorting to foreign influence to export their ideology to other nations. Our model incorporates two fundamental elements: redistribution of the tax burden between capital owners and workers, and international capital mobility. The model highlights...
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A Framework for Geoeconomics
Clayton, Christopher; Maggiori, Matteo; Schreger, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Governments use their countries' economic strength from existing financial and trade relationships to achieve geopolitical and economic goals. We refer to this practice as geoeconomics. We build a framework based on three core ingredients: input output linkages, limited contract enforceability,...
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Does Copyright Piracy Pay? The Effects of U.S. International Copyright Laws on the Market for Books, 1790-1920
Khan, B. Zorina - 2004
Does the lack of international copyrights benefit or harm developing countries? I examine the effects of U.S. copyright piracy during a period when the U.S. was itself a developing country. U.S. statutes since 1790 protected the copyrights of American citizens, but until 1891 deemed the works of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468422
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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing … quality. Various time series are examined for evidence that the economics profession has changed along these dimensions. Paper … process. It is difficult to attribute much of the slowdown to observable changes in the economics profession. Evolving social …
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Marshall's Economies
Henderson, Vernon - 1999
This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...
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Can Capital Mobility be Destabilizing?
Meng, Qinglai - 1999
In a standard two-sector neoclassical model with distortions, capital mobility can render the steady state indeterminate, in the sense that there exist infinitely many convergent paths. In the closed economy with no international capital mobility, the utility function must be linear or close to...
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A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1999
This paper develops a rent-protection theory of corporate ownership structure - and in particular, of the choice between concentrated and dispersed ownership of corporate shares and votes. The paper analyzes the decision of a company's initial owner whether to maintain a lock on control when the...
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