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Two essays in international relations: Trade protection and water diversion

Hathie, Ibrahima - 2000

The first essay proposes to test the Grossman and Helpman "Protection for Sale" model using data from the U.S. food processing industries at the 4-digit level. The Grossman and Helpman model departs from previous frameworks of trade protection in that it provides micro-foundations to the...

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Economic integration and market structure: An empirical analysis of the Morocco-European Union Free Trade Area

Elbehri, Aziz - 1999

This research offers an empirical analysis of the economic effects on Morocco from implementing a Free Trade Area (FTA) with the European Union (EU) signed in 1996. Since the FTA translates largely into unilateral discriminatory tariff elimination against EU imports, there are concerns about the...

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Vertical product differentiation, minimum quality standards, and international trade policy

Lutz, Stefan Heinz Hermann - 1993

This dissertation explores the influences of minimum quality standards and of the threat of entry in a vertical product differentiation model. In the first chapter, I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in...

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Economic growth, trade reforms and agricultural protectionism in Southeast Asia

Dimaranan, Betina Vega - 1999

were used to bring the world economy to 2005. The Uruguay Round trade reforms were taken into account. For the SEA-4 …

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Three essays on the geography of international trade

Villoria, Nelson B - 2009

data on bilateral trade flows amongst the nations of the world to provide insights about how important developments in one … theories of price transmission in the international coarse grains sector. Statistical tests reject the integrated world market … supply responses of individual countries leads to the prediction that most land use changes occur in the world's relatively …

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Globalization, neoliberalism, and popular resistance: The case of Latin America

Abreu Hernandez, Viviana Maria - 2002

This dissertation explores the interconnections that exist between international financial institutions, the state's implementation of economic policies, and the development of resistance movements in Latin America. The first part of this research looks at the three main models of economic...

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Ruminations on the Past, Present and Future of International Labor Standards: Empowering Law in the Brave New Economic World

Weiss, Marley S. - 2007

workers of the world may unite, combining their shared collective leverage with the moral suasion of international norms, to …

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The advantage of Spanish multinational enterprises in Latin America

Toral, Pablo - 2003

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) from Spain made large foreign direct investments (FDIs) in Latin America between 1990 and 2002, making Spain the second largest direct investor in this region since 1998, behind the United States. This dissertation explains the reasons that led Spanish firms to...

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Bretton Woods 1.0: An Essay in Constructive Retrieval

Hockett, Robert C - 2011

work had shown possible to manage domestically. Part II traces our and the wider world’s recent financial and …

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Capital, conditionality, and free markets: The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the effects of the neoliberal transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Carbacho-Burgos, Andres - 2000

-1995 period), focusing especially on macroeconomic stabilization under IMF support and on IMF and World Bank structural adjustment …

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