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The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to the foreign export elasticities … exists no evidence about whether countries actually exploit their market power in trade by setting higher tariffs on goods … countries that are not members of the World Trade Organization systematically set higher tariffs on goods that are supplied …
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The episodes of financial crises in many parts of the world during the 1990s have sparked interest in identifying channels through which such crises spread from one country to another. Researchers have identified several factors that may have sparked and induced contagion. This study further...
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different scenarios were analyzed taking into account the elimination of tariffs on imports among the member countries in the …
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This paper investigates the determinants of intra-CARICOM bilateral trade and the CARICOM member's trade with the North American and European countries using the gravity model. Seventeen annual cross-sections are estimated for the period 1980 through 1996. Overall, the empirical results indicate...
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Im Jahre 1991 vollzogen Argentinien, Brasilien, Uruguay und Paraguay mit der Gründung des “Gemeinsamen Marktes des Südens” (Mercado Común del Sur/MERCOSUR) einen wirtschaftspolitischen Paradigmenwechsel in Richtung Integration in die Weltwirtschaft und Nutzung komparativer...
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Regional integration has been used with varying success to overcome disadvantages associated with smallsize. The fundamental premise for regional cooperation in the Caribbean has been the promotion of economicdevelopment particularly in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. The opportunity...
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This paper presents the results of a survey and analysis ofelectricity tariffs and marginal electricity prices for … commercialbuildings. The tariff data come from a survey of 90 utilities and 250tariffs for non-residential customers collected in 2004 as …
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March 15,2004. The main overall goals of this new regulation are: to allow the lowest possible tariffs for end users, while …
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utility commissions (PUC) and utilities have considered implementing dynamic pricing tariffs, such as real-time pricing (RTP … is appropriate for utilities to offer a range of dynamic pricing tariffs and DR programs, or just ''plain vanilla … tariffs, three basic implementation issues require attention. First, should it be a default or optional tariff, and for which …
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Real-time pricing (RTP) has been advocated as an economically efficient means to send price signals to customers to promote demand response (DR) (Borenstein 2002, Borenstein 2005, Ruff 2002). However, limited information exists that can be used to judge how effectively RTP actually induces DR,...
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