In this dissertation, I study the effect of environmental regulation on firm behavior. In the first chapter, I use a dynamic model to quantify the effects on exit, entry, investment and welfare of different allocation schemes of a cap-and-trade program. I focus on allocation rules regarding...

This dissertation consists of three essays pertaining to the causes of the levels and composition of the international trade flows of nations, and the consequential implications for the levels of per capita income and welfare of their populations. The first of these documents a pattern of...

First chapter aims to quantify the role of trade in capital goods incross country income differences. I construct a multi-country general equilibriummodel of trade along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Alvarezand Lucas (2007) and introduce trade in capital goods and capital...

This dissertation consists of three essays in International Trade. The first essay studies the impact of changing tariffs on the range of goods countries export to the United States. The empirical analysis shows that tariffs tend to have a statistically significant but small impact: at best 5...

Diese Arbeit versucht, die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der globalen Erwärmung zu erklären und die Lösung dieses Problems zu finden. Die globale Erwärmung als länderübergreifendes Problems kann durch das marktwirtschaftliche Preissystem gelöst werden, besonders durch den internationalen...

This thesis comprises three essays that study the impact of trade unions on occupational health and safety (OHS). The first essay proposes a theoretical model that highlights the crucial role that unions have played throughout history in making workplaces safer. Firms traditionally oppose better...

Markets have an important role to play in advancing an improved understanding of international trading relationships. Two most important economic issues, which contribute to improved national welfare and ensure long-run competitive market equilibrium in international markets, are market...

Trade liberalization in Latin America has substantially altered business opportunities andeconomic development in the region. As barriers to competing inputs have come down andforeign investment in the region has gone up, small, domestic firms have struggled to stayafloat. Many small businesses...

Demand for construction Project Finance has developed in recent years asconstruction projects have become more elaborate requiring more expensive andspecialised technologies for their execution.Contractors' involvement with banks when operating in the United Arab Emiratesusually starts at the...