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To What Extent Are High-Quality Logistics Services Trade Facilitating?

Korinek, Jane; Sourdin, Patricia - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2011

Trade logistics facilitate trade. Quality logistics services play an important role in facilitating the transportation … of international trade in goods: inefficient logistics services impede trade by imposing an extra cost in terms of time … that trade logistics play in the volume and value of international trade and the extent to which poor quality logistics …

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Daily and monthly costs of terrorism on Pakistani exports

Mamoon, Dawood; Akhtar, Sajjad; Hissam, Saadia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This is first of its kind empirical study on the costs of terrorism on Pakistan’s exports. The analysis finds that intensity of terrorist activity can be divided into three distinct periods. The LAL Masjid incident in mid 2007 marks the first sign of intensification of terrorism in Pakistan....

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Trade liberalization and environmental taxation in federal systems

Fredriksson, Per; Matschke, Xenia - 2014

The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the … design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization … with trade liberalization if federal taxes are used. …

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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate health consequences of pollution privately or act collectively

Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 34 (2014) C, pp. 142-156

environmental standards but highly restricted trade, thus leading to ambiguous outcomes regarding pollution levels. …

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Economic Integration as a Partition Function Game.

Morelli, M.; Penelle, P. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1997

This paper provides a methodology to study coalition formation problems with externalities and heterogeneous players, whensome subset of the players can act as "coalition developers" over time. The framework provided here allows to explicitly predict the timing of admission to coalitions, the...

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Bilateral Oligopoly.

Bjornerstedt, J.; Stennek, J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

In many intermediate goods markets buyers and sellers both have market power. Contracts are usually long-term and negotiated bilaterally, codifying many elements in addition to price. We model such bilateral oligopolies as a set of simultaneous Rubenstein-Stahl bargainings over contracts...

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Ex Post Individually Rational Trading Mechanisms

Forges, F. - Paris X - Nanterre, U.F.R. de Sc. Ec. Gest. Maths Infor. - 1998

We model the trading possibilities of one seller and n potential buyers as a strategic game, which extends the two-person sealed-bid double auction. We introduce particular communication equilibria for this game, the self-fulfilling equilibria. In the case of arbitrary informational...

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Increasing Dominance with No Efficiency Effect.

Cabral, L. - Finance Department, Stern School of Business - 2000

I uncover a new force towards increasing dominance. The new effect results from the strategic choice of covariance in races. I assume that players must choose not the amount of resources to spend but how to allocate those resources. I show that the laggard has an incentive to chose a different...

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Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements

Limão, Nuno; Tovar, Patricia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

in trade agreements increase the likelihood and restrictiveness of NTBs. We also provide a structural estimate that …

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TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN A BILATERAL TRADE MODEL

CABO, FRANCISCO; MARTÍN-HERRÁN, GUIOMAR; … - In: International Game Theory Review (IGTR) 10 (2008) 01, pp. 73-100

This paper develops a trade model for a technologically leading country and a developing country that exploits a …

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