Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO … of natural resources. Properly coordinated policy reforms offer an avenue to resource exporting and importing countries …

This paper provides a survey of the recent literature about firing costs and discusses the transmission channels of … firing costs in a partial equilibrium context. In addition, we expand our analysis two types of firing costs in a New …-respecting the bonding critique. We find that the two types of firing costs do not show significant differences. However, respecting …

. -- severance pay ; firing costs ; hiring costs ; separation rate ; employment …