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Trade protection in India : economics vs. politics?

Gang, Ira N.; Pandey, Mihir - 1996

This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector. Economic factors can be summarized by the infant industry argument and we expect industries which are relatively efficient compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels...

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Published and realized tariffs : the weak link

Gang, Ira N.; Pandey, Mihir - 1996 - Revised

This paper investigates the link between published tariff rates and realized tariff rates using Indian inter-industry manufacturing sector data over three Plan periods. Understanding this link is important as economies liberalize trade and must deal with the potential revenue shortfalls: if the...

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Revisiting the relationship between trade liberalization and taxation

Arezki, Rabah; Dama, Alou Adessé; Graziosi, Grégoire Rota - 2021

This paper explores the dynamic effects of trade liberalization on tax revenue using a worldwide panel dataset. Results … point to statistically significant negative effect of liberalization on (non- resource) tax revenues in the short term and … no significant effect in the medium term. Liberalization also alter the tax structure tilting revenues toward indirect …

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Forecasting profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Chris - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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Investigating Technical and Ecological Efficiencies in the Electricity Generation Industry : Are There Win-Win Opportunities?

Sarkis, Joseph; Cordeiro, James - 2008

Using data from the EPA's EGRID and Clean Air Markets databases, we investigate the energy (technical) and emissions (ecological) efficiencies of 437 of the largest U.S. electricity generators. We focus on fossil-fuel based electricity generating plants because of their significant impact on...

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Chapter 11. Technological change and the Environment

Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 461-516). 2003

Environmental policy discussions increasingly focus on issues related to technological change. This is partly because the environmental consequences of social activity are frequently affected by the rate and direction of technological change, and partly because environmental policy interventions...

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Knowledge-Based Capital and Productivity Divergence

Le Mouel, Marie; Schiersch, Alexander - 2020

Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of advanced economies and ensuring long-term economic prosperity. This paper is the first to provide evidence that investment in Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a...

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What Determines the Elasticity of Substitution between Capital and Labor? A Literature Review

Knoblach, Michael - 2020

This paper provides the first comprehensive review of the empirical and theoretical literature on the determinants of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. Our focus is on the two-input constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function. By example of the U.S., we...

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Knowledge-based capital and productivity divergence

Le Mouel, Marie; Schiersch, Alexander - 2020

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Death to the Cobb-Douglas production function

Gechert, Sebastian; Havránek, Tomáš; Havránková, Zuzana - 2019

We show that the large elasticity of substitution between capital and labor estimated in the literature on average, 0.9, can be explained by three factors: publication bias, use of aggregated data, and omission of the first-order condition for capital. The mean elasticity conditional on the...

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