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A quota on foreign competition will generally lead to quality-upgrading (downgrading) of the low-quality (high-quality) firm, an increase in average quality, a reduction of quality differentiation, and a reduction of domestic consumer surplus, irrespective of whether the foreign firm produces...
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Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the … of the student-proposing deferred acceptance (SDA) algorithm, which simultaneously allocates seats in all quotas. Our …
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data on textile and clothing trade, underlying bilateral tariffs, and the country-pair coverage of quotas under the WTO …
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Quotas or permits are frequently used in the management of renewable resources and emissions. However, in many … industries there is concern about the basic e ectiveness of quotas due to non-compliance. We develop an enforcement model of a …
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of combining a non-linear tax on harvest and individual transferable quotas to address these three objectives and argue …
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of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also …
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Identity is an important determinant of economic behavior. A limitation of the existing literature is the focus on one identity dimension at a time. We show that the multiplicity of identity dimensions matters for economic behavior and that neglecting it may lead policy makers to overlook...
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quotas with protection occuring in response to import surges, but only for organized industries, is simulated and shown to …
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This paper critically and selectively surveys the literature on protection for sale and discusses directions for future research in this area. It suggests that the standard approach needs to be augmented to provide more compelling tests of this model.
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of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it …
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