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regulation principally seek to reduce negative externalities that are caused by trade under certain conditions. Therefore the …
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We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member countries is...
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We build on the latest developments in the structural gravity literature to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287974
We build on the latest developments in the structural gravity literature to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269824
We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335080
instrument for controlling environmental externalities. But this debate has largely been confined to the context of national law … a majoritarian voting rule which can compel sources of externalities to comply, and executed through a federalist … reluctant sources of externalities--a "beneficiaries pay" rather than a "polluters pay" approach. And it shows that making such …
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Eleven years after the United States signed the Kyoto Protocol, climate change policy remains stalled in the United States. While 177 countries have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and several countries have enacted strong climate change policies, the United States has lagged behind primarily over...
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An increasing proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas in industrializing and developing countries. Recent research shows that per capita emissions in cities like Bangkok, Cape Town or Shanghai have already reached the level of cities like London, New York or Toronto....
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Developing countries reject meaningful emission targets (recent intensity caps are no exception), while many industrialized countries insist that developing countries accept them. This impasse has prevented the Kyoto Protocol from establishing a global price for greenhouse gas emissions. This...
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The fundamental question that needs to be addressed by public policy in the area of environmental protection as we move into the next century is, "what is the appropriate role of government?" This question emerges along three fundamental dimensions in relation to environmental protection, which...
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