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Rent Sharing in the Multi-Fibre Arrangement : Theory and Evidence from US Apparel Imports from Hong Kong
Krishna, Kala - 1991
Available estimates of tariff equivalents of quotas and welfare calculations on the costs of MFA quotas for developing countries are based on the premise of perfect competition in both product and license markets. It is also assumed that the exporting countries which administer the MFA quotas...
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Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...
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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
Karlan, Dean - 2014
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance
Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials … on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …
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Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters
Demidova, Svetlana - 2006
This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465935
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Apparel Prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Brueghel Paradox
Gordon, Robert J. - 2005
Backcasting upward bias in price index over long periods of time yields levels of real consumption two or four centuries ago that are implausibly low, raising the possibility that price index bias for important products may have been zero or even negative at some point in the past. This paper...
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Tight Clothing : How the MFA Affects Asian Apparel Exports
Evans, Carolyn L. - 2004
International trade in apparel and textiles is regulated by a system of bilateral tariffs and quotas known as the Multifiber Arrangement or MFA. Using a time series of detailed product-level data from the United States on the quotas and tariffs that comprise the MFA, we analyze how the MFA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468443
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Distance, Time, and Specialization
Evans, Carolyn L. - 2003
Time is money, and distance matters. We model the interaction of these truisms, and show the implications for global specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be produced near the source of final demand, where wages will be higher as a result. In the model,...
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Assessing the Effects of the MFA/ATC from US and World Trade Data after Its Removal
Yao, Daqing - 2015
higher country concentration of exporters. We also find the effects of the MFA on clothing trade were more significant than … for textiles trade. The benefits from freer trade in textiles and clothing shed light on other sectors that are still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457368
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Stock Market Stimulus
Greenwood, Robin; Laarits, Toomas; Wurgler, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of "stimulus checks" to U.S. taxpayers and the single round of direct payments to Hong Kong citizens. The first two rounds of U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of retail-dominated portfolios....
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