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The paper studies the effects of green tax reforms within a walrasian computable general equilibrium model of the Italian economy calibrated on a microconsistent data set derived from the Input-Output table for the year 1990. Tax reforms increase taxation on the energy sector either through an...
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A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid social humiliation. In a general equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between two identical economies. Migration increases the...
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. However, simulation results seem to exhibit significant variation across publications, and the often criticised ‘black box …’ character of applied trade models makes meaningful comparisons of simulation results very difficult. As a potential remedy, this … paper presents a meta-analysis of simulation-based Doha round publications. The meta-regression explains simulated welfare …
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native welfare effects of various immigration scenarios. A calibration-based simulation reveals that the size of the inflow …
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This paper examines the effects of the reduction in tariff rates in the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 on unemployment, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional CGE modeling is replaced with individual...
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Singapore Financial Centre. The revelatory case of the underresearched Singapore cluster reveals (a) how clustering conditions …
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Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and … maintaining Singapore's competitiveness, improving energy security, and enhancing environmental sustainability. In this paper, we … discuss where Singapore stands with regard to its energy consumption and CO2 emissions, its energy policies to date, and those …
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to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore's aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an …
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