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Can smart policies reconcile Singapore's green economy with sand imports from Southeast Asia?
Hübler, Michael; Pothen, Frank - 2018
challenge, this article focuses on sand exports from developing countries in Southeast Asian to Singapore as a prominent example … extraction to a large extent, while the economic costs are small for Singapore and slightly positive for the Southeast Asian sand … policy can help sustainably balance Singapore's economic growth with Southeast Asia's economic development. …
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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Trade Policy
Giordani, Paolo E. - 2015
This paper studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large food price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021787
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Examination of the Singapore shift in Japan's foreign direct investment in services in ASEAN
Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2011
contrast, Japan's FDI in the services sectors in ASEAN has been growing rapidly. The recent phenomenon of the Singapore Shift … establish a commercial presence in Singapore, which they expect to be the "hub" of Southeast Asia, thereby enabling them to … supply services to the entire ASEAN region. The magnitude of the Singapore Shift varies for every services sub-sector. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907793
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Examination of the Singapore Shift in Japan's Foreign Direct Investment in Services in ASEAN
Hamanaka, Shintaro - 2011
contrast, Japan's FDI in the services sectors in ASEAN is growing rapidly. The recent phenomenon of the Singapore Shift in … establish a commercial presence in Singapore, which they expect to be the hub of Southeast Asia, thereby enabling them to supply … services to the entire ASEAN region. The magnitude of the Singapore Shift varies for every services sub-sector. By comparing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128725
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The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union as an actor in international trade
Woolcock, Stephen - 2010
The Treaty of Lisbon will introduce a number of changes to European Union (EU) external trade policy decision making. These involve the scope of exclusive competence of the EU, the role of the European Parliament and the inclusion of trade in the common external action of the EU. This article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974519
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Competition policy in an open economy
Francois, Joseph F.; Horn, Henrik - 1998 - Rev.
We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to the goals of competition policy (suchas the degree and nature of competition). The issues we address involve thegeneral equilibrium distributional effects of competition...
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Household inequality, welfare, and the setting of trade policy
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004
We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions in a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337398
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Universal intellectual property rights : too much of a good thing?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - 2013
This paper studies the incentives that developing countries have to protect intellectual properties rights (IPR). On the one hand, free-riding on rich countries technology reduces their investment cost in R&D. On the other hand, firm that violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that...
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Trade policy in majoritarian systems : the case of the US
Fredriksson, Per; Matschke, Xenia; Minier, Jenny - 2011
We provide a theory of trade policy determination that incorporates the protectionist bias inherent in majoritarian systems, suggested by Grossman and Helpman (2005). The prediction that emerges is that in majoritarian systems, the majority party favors industries located disproportionately in...
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EU import measures and the developing countries
Auboin, Marc; Laird, Samuel - 1997 - Manuscript date: 31 August, 1997
The EU's import policies towards developing countries are complex, stemming from important sectoral and country variations in policy. Average tariffs are modest, and, while there are tariff peaks and escalation in some areas of interest to developing countries, these are being reduced as a...
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