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Sustainability and international trade in resources

Klepper, Gernot; Stähler, Frank - 1995

policy may even imply an increased resource use. In this case, a large part of the sustainability objective is met by … substituting domestic resource extraction by imports. When sustainability is modelled in an inter temporal, competitive framework …, the paper shows that the sustainability rule will not lead to a slower rate of extraction of the resource. …

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Migration, income redistribution, and international capital mobility

Meckl, Jürgen - 1994

This paper studies income-redistribution effects from labor migration in a small open economy under alternative assumptions on the international mobility of capital. Our principal result is that induced international capital flows dampen or may even reverse redistribution effects. However, as...

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Trade and the political economy of redistribution

Vannoorenberghe, Gonzague; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of trade liberalisation on the political support for policies that redistribute income between workers in different sectors. We allow for worker heterogeneity and imperfect mobility of workers across sectors, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and...

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Migration and trade with external economies of scale

Collie, David R. - 2007

The analysis of migration in Findlay (1982) is extended by adding external economies of scale to the Ricardian model as in Ethier (1982). With external economies, the larger country always gains from trade but the smaller country may lose from trade unless the external economies of scale are...

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Climate policy and trade: Dynamics and the steady-state assumption in a multi-regional framework

Springer, Katrin - 1999

Most dynamic trade models assume steady state or balanced growth. This paper argues while this can be done in a single region model or a model without trade, the steady state assumption is problematic in a multi-regional setting with trade interactions. This paper shows the consequences of...

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Unilateral Actions the Case of International Environmental Problems

Brandt, Urs Steiner - 2003

When abatement costs are uncertain, but correlated, and a country becomes pri-vately informed that costs are low, then unilateral actions serve as a signalling devise to reveal low costs and unilateral actions have the potential to trigger positive responses abroad. However, the country engaging...

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From Free to Civilized Markets: First Steps towards Eutopia

Kapeller, Jakob; Schütz, Bernhard; Tamesberger, Dennis - 2014

Unfettered market forces tend to violate basic universal concepts like justice, dignity or fairness. Therefore we suggest moving to a new concept of markets, which we label 'civilized markets'. A civilized market tries to ensure that free entrepreneurship and open markets are eventually...

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International Trade and Net Investment: Theory and Evidence

Bretschger, Lucas; Valente, Simone - 2011

-augmented measures can be large and may even revert some established con- clusions regarding sustainability: prospects are more favorable …

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Role of Finance in Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman Model of International Trade

Marjit, Sugata; Dutta, Meghna; Roy, Moushakhi - 2022

This paper introduces finance or credit in the Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman (DSK) model of international trade. It identifies mechanisms by which finance can affect the main results of the conventional model. The key results are as follows. Perfect credit market does not affect number of varieties or...

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Taxing Mobile Capital with Labor Market Imperfections

Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2001

Taxing internationally mobile factors of production has been dismissed as an inefficient means of raising tax revenue. This paper addresses the question of whether it is efficient to tax capital at source when labor markets and the taxation of lumpsum income suffer from imperfections. Four...

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