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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
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Determinants of Social Distancing and Economic Activity During COVID-19 : A Global View
Maloney, William F. - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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Covid-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries : A Tale of Two Pandemics?
Schellekens, Philip - 2020
applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …
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Trade Flows and Trade Disputes
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972945
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Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Assessing the Effects of Job Security, Labor Dispute, and Contract Labor Laws in India
Ahsan, Ahmad - 2016
This paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on different types of labor laws. It examines the effects of amendments to labor dispute laws and amendments to job security legislation. It also identifies the effects oflegal amendments related to the most contentious regulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747713
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Is the WTO Passe?
Bagwell, Kyle - 2018
The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937212
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Arbitrating and Mediating Disputes : Benchmarking Arbitration and Mediation Regimes for Commercial Disputes Related to Foreign Direct Investment
Pouget, Sophie - 2017
Disputes indicators assess the legal and institutional framework for commercial arbitration, mediation, and conciliation …An effective commercial arbitration regime matters for foreign investors. It gives parties the autonomy to create a … dispute resolution system tailored to increasingly complex disputes. Foreign investors view arbitration as a way to mitigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973934
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Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long-run political-economic costs and benefits. Empirical work examining the relationship between such commitments and the exercise of trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974687
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Cotton Subsidies, the WTO, and The'Cotton Problem'
Baffes, John - 2017
Following an 8-year long dispute over cotton subsidies, Brazil and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding on April 21, 2010, effectively paving the way for settling the dispute. This paper argues that cotton subsidies are just the tip of the iceberg while a number of other,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976001
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The Sooner, the Better : The Early Economic Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2020
The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non-pharmaceutical interventions have not been fully assessed, because the official economic indicators have not been published. This paper provides estimates of the economic impacts of the...
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