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both supply and demand sides. It is shown that whether this total elasticity implies energy-capital complementarity or … substitutability to complementarity as the price of energy rises. This framework offers an additional way of reconciling apparently … conflicting findings on energy-capital complementarity and substitutability: an earlier suggestion was made by Berndt and Wood …
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. We prove that with extreme-skill complementarity, the skill distribution has fatter tails in large cities; with top …-skill complementarity, there is first-order stochastic dominance. Using the model to back out skills from wage and housing price data, we … consistent with extreme-skill complementarity: the productivity of high skilled workers and of the providers of low skilled …
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We argue that it is the distribution of market power among agents, rather than the use of market power itself, that may force Ricardian economies into autarky. By applying Baldwin (1948) monopoly equilibrium concepts to the general equilibrium with imperfect competition model analyzed by...
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India and Bangladesh have pursued policies of trade liberalization since the early 1990s. However, owing to the differential speeds of opening up, Bangladesh's bilateral trade deficit with India widened substantially over the years. This aggravated the economic and the political tensions between...
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The India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA) was signed between India and Sri Lanka in December 1998 and came into operation in March 2000. It is now 10 years since this FTA has been signed and during this period the bilateral trade between these two economies has reached new heights...
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Three points are made in this article. First, it is argued that general equilibrium theory should not be limited to the …
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