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Get Green or Get Out : Decoupling Environmental from Economic Objectives in Agricultural Regulation

Chen, James Ming - 2014

American agricultural law's environmental record is a legacy of legislative failure. Most of the blame can and should be attributed to the failure of the law to separate ecological objectives from competing and ultimately contradictory economic objectives. Two strains of agroecological fallacies...

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Environmental Regulation, Comparative Advantage and the Porter Hypothesis

Albrecht, Johan A. E. - 2001

Empirical surveys find no significant impact of environmental regulation and environmental costs on international competitiveness. In the literature, we can find three hypotheses on the impact of environmental regulation. For the industrial-flight and pollution-haven hypothesis, there is no...

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Renewable energy, subsidies, and the WTO : where has the "green" gone?

Bougette, Patrice; Charlier, Christophe - 2014

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada - Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in...

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A touch of sophistication : FDI and unit values of exports

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2009

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more "sophisticated" products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting...

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Usage and diffusion of cellular telephony, 1998 - 2004

Grajek, Michał; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2007

We study the dynamics of usage intensity of second-generation cellular telephony over the diffusion curve. Specifically, we address two questions: First, can we draw conclusions about the underlying drivers of technology diffusion by studying usage intensity? Second, what is the effect of high...

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Clearing and settlement systems from around the world : a qualitative analysis

Tompkins, Michael - 2016

As Canada continues to engage in a dialogue to develop the approach to modernizing its core payment systems, we analyze the core payment systems that exist in countries around the world. We study payment systems in 27 jurisdictions, encompassing a broad range of geographic regions, through three...

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How would Hedge fund regulation affect investor behavior? : implications for systemic risk

Minamihashi, Naoaki; Wakamori, Naoki - 2014 - This Draft: September 1, 2014

We estimate an investors' demand model for hedge funds to analyze the potential impact of leverage limits in the industry. Our estimation results highlight the importance of heterogeneous investor preference for the use of leverage, i.e., 20% of investors prefer leverage usage while others do...

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Trade and investment barriers affecting international production networks in India

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2014

This paper analyses the reasons behind India lagging behind East and South East Asian economies in participating in international production networks, on which growth in manufacturing has become increasingly dependent in the contemporary world. Since multinational firms are the main coordinating...

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Domestic rivalry and export performance : theory and evidence from international airline markets

Clougherty, Joseph A.; Zhang, Anming - 2008

The much-studied relationship between domestic rivalry and export performance consists of those supporting a national-champion rationale, and those supporting a rivalry rationale. While the empirical literature generally supports the positive effects of domestic rivalry, the national-champion...

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Free Zones and the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

Torres, Raúl A. - 2012

explains how the obligations in the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures apply to free zones. An analysis of … such benefits may be considered prohibited subsidies. Since not all WTO Members have the same obligations with respect to … prohibited subsidies, the article also explains the specific rules governing the special and differential treatment for the …

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