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President George W. Bush ran on a platform of free trade during the 2000 election. Yet shortly after he took office he started engaging in protectionist trade practices. The 30 percent tariffs imposed on steel and Canadian lumber were only two of the most noticeable examples of practicing...
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Public pension funds are, by far, the world's preeminent asset owners, with more than $ 25 trillions in combined assets. The largest pension funds are found in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK ("pension superpowers"). How they are managed, their funding...
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We investigate the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market on multinational affiliates and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of...
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; diversification ; method of reflections ; product complexity ; ubiquity …
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, to answer: (i) whether export diversification is path-dependent, and whether it is more difficult to diversify into more … diversification. Our framework also allows us to test whether leapfrogging into what we refer to as core products is possible and …
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The paper analyses the influence of trade policies on the investment decisions of a representative individual. In particular, the increased uncertainty of future income is considered in the investment behaviour of individuals. The optimal portfolio-decision of a representative working individual...
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whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources available to them. We argue that this question extends far beyond … the distribution of the limited MCC resources. By employing OLS and treatmenteffects estimations, we assess how other US … aid agencies and non-US donors reacted to MCC decisions. We find that positive signaling effects tend to dominate possible …
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We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non … fiercer competition is associated with more efficient foreign aid activities of NGOs, rather than leading to 'excessive …
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whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources available to them. We argue that this question extends far beyond … the distribution of the limited MCC resources. By employing OLS and treatment-effects estimations, we assess how other US … aid agencies and non-US donors reacted to MCC decisions. We find that positive signaling effects tend to dominate possible …
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' exit for almost 900 US based NGOs with overseas aid activities during the 1984-2003 period. Apart from their size and …
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