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exercise, we document how the model's estimates imply that a 9 - 20 percent appreciation of China's real exchange rate vis …-a-vis the US dollar during the sample period would allow for China's exporters to have received the average import protection …
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Canada is the one of the first in-depth studies of China's increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic … common assumption that China poses an acute threat to Arctic states' polar interests. Instead, it offers a nuanced assessment …
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movements have had important implications for inflation and economic activity in both Canada and the rest of the world. China … in China has raised the level of world demand, this has put upward pressure on commodity prices. The effect has been … amplified by rising resource intensities in China's production in recent years. This paper discusses the factors driving …
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Derzeit verschärft sich der Wettbewerb um die CO2-Abscheidung und ‑Speicherung sowie ‑Nutzung (CCS/CCU). Bislang (noch) von Nordamerika dominiert, sind es nun insbesondere Akteure im Großraum Asien - von Saudi-Arabien bis Japan -, die diese Technologien vorantreiben. In deren sich...
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sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …
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We examine the relative benefits of policy aimed at mitigating GHG emissions in Canada and globally. We find that while a carbon tax that holds the stock of global emissions below the 550 ppm level would yield positive net benefits for the world economy, the impact of such a tax on the Canadian...
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This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the...
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This paper investigates the effect of private pensions on the retirement wealth distribution. The model incorporates stochastic private pension coverage into a lifecycle model with stochastic earnings. The predictions of the calibrated model are compared to the distribution of retirement net...
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The great recession of 2008-2009 resulted in a large fall in trade relative to output. Real trade fell roughly three times more than real GDP in the U.S. and Mexico, and by a factor of five in Canada. The decline in trade and output was particularly large in sectors with high levels of...
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Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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