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Abstract Objective This paper is establishing the relationship between the spreading dynamics of the Covid-19 pandemic in Morocco and the efficiency of the measures and actions taken by public authorities to contain it. The main objective is to predict the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in...
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Two-country applications of equilibrium business cycle methodology have succeeded in matching some key features of international fluctuations. However, discrepancies between theory and data remain. This paper identifies an anomaly related to a basic property of typical models: The prediction of...
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Uses a conjectural variation approach to derive a general result concerning the equivalence of tariffs and quotas …. Shows that, as long as the quota is binding, the equivalence of tariffs and quotas depends exclusively on the domestic firm …
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Analyses smuggling through legal entry points in the context of a Ricardo‐Viner (RV) economy. Posits that smuggling will improve welfare if the benefits of a reduced domestic price distortion exceed the resource cost of smuggling. Strengthening of anti‐smuggling activity eed not improve...
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A simple two‐sector general equilibrium model is developed to show how the phenomenon of negative value‐added occurs in the protected sector, when the intermediate input is an exportable of the country. Previously, it has been shown in a partial analysis that the production loss of negative...
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impact on the telecommunications industry and possible ramifications for world trade in general are assessed.  …
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‐developed members of the World Trade Organization (WTO); and fixed‐effects regression model to determine the effect of national output … margins of import tariffs that are applied to imports by the high income and the least‐developed members and that the MPM is … national income and reduce tariffs.  …
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’ pensions and protection from steel imports. The government imposed tariffs of 8 to 30 per cent to last for three years …. Reaction to the tariffs from U.S. trade partners has been negative. The government hopes the industry will take advantage of …
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, and particularly the possibility that such an increase in tariffs would have a favorable distributional effect by … rules. The paper then examines other constraints on the effective use of such higher tariffs on cotton. Policies that are …
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partner. Explains the tariffs applied by the GCC states and the provisions of the EU‐GCC Free Trade Agreement; and considers …
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