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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. …

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Power Relations in the International Monetary Fund: A Study of the Political Economy of a Priori Voting Power Using the Theory of Simple Games

Leech, D. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1997

In general in organizations whose system of governance involves weighted majority voting, power and voting weight differ. Power indices are a value concept for majority voting games which provide a means of analyzing this difference. This paper provides new algorithms for computing the two...

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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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