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Environmental and Health-Related Standards Influencing Agriculture in Australia

Stringer, Randy; Anderson, Kym - 2003

Netherlands. The five countries include Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand and the USA. Each country study …, Australia's farmers have been largely insulated from the demands of environmental groups and from government restrictions on … government if the resource base is to be used optimally. Australia has begun responding to this environmental challenge by …

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Local content policies in mineral-exporting countries

Korinek, Jane; Ramdoo, Isabelle - 2017

Resource abundance does not always bring sustained economic growth and development. Moreover, the mining sector generally provides little direct employment in the regions where extraction occurs. In an attempt to derive greater benefits from their resource endowments, and increase linkages with...

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - 1998

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question : are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Trade, wages and productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2009

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favours wage convergence, boosts competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

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Trade, Wages, and Productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214678

The Impact of Taiwan's TPP Accession on Canada

Ciuriak, Dan; Xiao, Jingliang - 2014

This paper analyzes the impact on Canada’s economy of Taiwan’s accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. While the TPP is to be concluded by the twelve current negotiating parties, it will allow accession by other regional economies, consistent with APEC’s endorsement of...

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Trade Policy Analysis at a Sub-National Level : Replacing Canada by Its Provinces in the GTAP Model

Lysenko, Dmitry - 2015

This paper develops a new version of the GTAP database in which Canada is replaced by its provinces in order to allow the analysis of international trade agreements at a subnational level. The methodology in effect treats the individual provinces as separate trading entities, much like the...

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Province-Level Impacts of Canada's Trade Agreements : Ontario and the Canada-Korea FTA

Ciuriak, Dan - 2015

Canada has recently concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) with two major economies, one trans-Atlantic (the EU) and one trans-Pacific (Korea); as well, it is negotiating a still larger agreement with Pacific Rim countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) initiative. From an economic...

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Services Trade Liberalization in the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement Revisited

Ciuriak, Dan - 2015

This paper assesses the economic impact of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA) on the basis of the published text and agreed schedule of commitments. We introduce new estimates of the impact of the services measures based on the extent to which they change the Services Trade...

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Finding the Hidden Dragon : Why Taiwan Matters to Canada's Economic Future

Dawson, Laura Ritchie - 2015

Taiwan is seeking to participate, in due course, in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. This will most likely involve Taiwan's accession to a "done deal", and thus the negotiation of its accession with each incumbent participant. This study evaluates the implications of Taiwan's accession...

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