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Issue Linkage and Issue Tie-in in Multilateral Negotiations.

Conconi, P.; Perroni, C. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2000

multilateral cooperation when countries are linked by international trade flows and transboundary pollution. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005583073

Srinivasan, T.N. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

The latest, and internationally controversial, issue relating to trade and human rights is that of labor standards. It … has surfaced in international fora including the World Trade Organization (WTO). I will focus exclusively on this issue in … political problems associated with using trade policy as an instrument for enforcing human rights. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256223

Economic Integration and the Welfare of Those Who are Left Behind: an Incentive-Theoretic Approach.

Goto, J.; Hamada, K. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

trade area to compensate for the loss of welfare due to the formation of the original union. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256245

Export Instability, Investment and Economic Growth in Asian Countries: A Time Series Analysis.

Sinha, D. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

In this study, we look at the relationship between export stability, investment and economic growth in nine Asian countries using time series data. The few previous time series studies in this area have not paid any attention to stationarity and cointegration issues. We find that in most cases,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005675216

Pattern and Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing.

Sharma, K. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This paper the presents pattern and determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in Australian manufacturing since the … trend in IIT suggests that the short-term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalisation are likely to be lower, and … investigated. Results indicate that intra-industry trade is positively related to product differentiation and scale economies, and …

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Sanctions on South Africa: What Did They Do?

Levy, P.I. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

This paper considers the economic sanctions that were applied in the mid-1980s to pressure the South African government to end apartheid. It asks what role those sanctions played in the eventual demise of the apartheid regime and concludes that the role was probably very small. An alternative...

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The Frequency of Wars

Harrison, Mark; Wolf, Nikolaus - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2008

conflicts. Trade and democracy are traditionally thought of as goods, both in themselves, and because they reduce the …

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Trade Bloc Formation Under Imperfect Competition.

Conconi, P. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2000

We examine the endogenous formation of trade blocs when markets are characterized by imperfect competition and … simple model of intra-industry trade between three ex-ante symmetric countries, we find that, while 'pure' customs unions … - entailing tariff cooperation only - are stepping stones towards global free trade, 'impure' customs unions - involving the …

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The Efficiency, Equity and Politics of Emission Permit Trading.

Wooders, M.; Zissimos, B. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2001

This paper illustrates that an international permit trading system may hurt relatively poor countries by making associated economic activities unaffordable. A model is constructed in which the free market solution is Pareto inefficient as a result of pollution. The introduction of tradable...

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Econometric Evidence on LDC Exports: A Contribution to the Hong Kong Debate.

Leech, D.; Halstead, G. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1996

This paper argues that previous empirical work on the explanation for Hong Kong's export Growth, by focusing on the values of the estimated price and income elasticities, has failed to provide a full account. It is necessarily also to look at changes in the explanatory variables in the model,...

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