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Essays on tax policies and international trade.

Tuzova, Yelena Andreyevna - 2009

trade diversification, but a negative effect in terms of consumer and social welfare. …

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Welfare versus market access: the implications of tariff structure for tariff reform

Anderson, James E.; Neary, J. Peter - 2007

We show that the effects of tariff changes on welfare and import volume are fully characterised by their effects on the … welfare is negatively but import volume positively related to the generalised variance, the cones do not intersect, which … poses a policy dilemma. We present a new radial tariff reform rule, which implies new results for welfare- and market …

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Spatial Effects of European Integration: Do Border Regions Benefit Above Average?

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2004

A basic result of new economic geography (NEG) models is that the proximity to consumer markets impacts wages and employment within regions. The ongoing process of European integration, being targeted on the reduction of barriers to trade and factor mobility, has presumably changed relative...

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Agricultural Market Access: A Moving Target in the WTO Negotiations?

Brockmeier, Martina; Pelikan, Janine - 2006

This paper analyses the economic effects of different magnitudes of tariff cuts, different tariff cutting formulas, the implications of tariff capping as well as different numbers and width of tariff bands in the market access pillar of the Doha Round agricultural negotiations. The simulations...

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Do Price Uncertainties Affect the Use of Policy Flexibilities? The Selection of Sensitive Products in WTO Agricultural Negotiations

Listorti, Giulia; Kempen, Markus; Girardin, Jean; … - 2011

In a context in which price uncertainty is likely to increase, expected market trends need to be taken carefully into account while negotiating international trade policy rules. This paper aims at analyzing what is their influence on the use of policy flexibilities in the context of WTO...

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Improving Market Access: The Role of Auctions in Converting Tariff-Rate Quotas into Single Tariffs

Joerin, Robert - 2009

Market access in the WTO is highly fragmented due to exceptions from GATT principles. Tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) stand in contradiction to the principle of the GATT, according to which all quantitative restrictions in international trade should be eliminated. Bhagwati’s theorem of the...

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International Price-Fixing Cartels and Developing Countries: A Discussion of Effects and Policy Remedies

Levenstein, Margaret C.; Suslow, Valerie Yvonne; … - 2003

The U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have all recently voiced concern about international price- fixing cartels. The U.S. and European Union have increased prosecution of international cartels in the past decade,...

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Japanese Consumer Co-operatives - A Market Entry Opportunity for Queensland Fresh Horticultural Produce

Ada, Richard Laird - 2003

It is important that Queensland horticultural producers develop export capacity. Production is increasing and Australia has a relatively small domestic market. Export also provides a means to diversify as a risk management strategy and to arrest the income decline from existing markets. This...

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Making sense of financial education

Klein, Valerie - 2007

A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...

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Exploring the causes of intergenerational welfare recipiency

Tseng, Fannie M - 2000

This dissertation presents and estimates a model that examines the economic causes of intergenerational welfare … recipiency. Previous literature in this area has found that daughters of welfare recipients have a higher incidence of receiving … welfare than daughters of non-recipients. My dissertation measures the possible economic causes underlying this phenomenon by …

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