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Sustainability and international trade in resources

Klepper, Gernot; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

policy may even imply an increased resource use. In this case, a large part of the sustainability objective is met by … substituting domestic resource extraction by imports. When sustainability is modelled in an inter temporal, competitive framework …, the paper shows that the sustainability rule will not lead to a slower rate of extraction of the resource. …

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Sustainability and international trade in resources

Klepper, Gernot; Stähler, Frank - 1995

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Import competition, regional divergence, and the rise of the skilled city

Quintana, Javier - 2021

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What Would a Development-Friendly WTO Architecture Really Look Like?

Subramanian, Arvind; Mattoo, Aaditya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper elaborates on a number of key principles that need to underpin a coherent and development-friendly architecture for the WTO. The key principles include enlarging the scope of WTO bargaining to include labor flows as well as capital flows; creating a structure that would provide a...

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Crisis and Pension System Design in the EU: International Spillover Effects Via Factor Mobility and Trade

Fedotenkov, Igor; Meijdam, Lex - In: De Economist 161 (2013) 2, pp. 175-197

Many European Union states have adjusted pension benefits or reformed the pension system in reaction to the recent economic crisis, while other member states have postponed this type of adjustments. In this paper we study to what extent countries that responded quickly to the crisis are harmed...

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Why the theory of comparative advantage is wrong

Fletcher, Ian - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 4, pp. 421-429

The theory of comparative advantage is widely misunderstood to demonstrate the universal superiority of free trade. In fact, the theory depends upon a number of key assumptions and fails if they are relaxed. Empirically, many of these assumptions are highly questionable, if not demonstrably...

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Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare

Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper extends a recent class of quantitative models of international trade to incorporate factor mobility within countries. We present a model-based decomposition of the variance of economic activity into the contributions of locational fundamentals, market access and their covariance. We...

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Trade and the Political Economy of Redistribution

Vannoorenberghe, Gonzague; Janeba, Eckhard - CESifo - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of trade liberalisation on the political support for policies that redistribute income between workers in different sectors. We allow for worker heterogeneity and imperfect mobility of workers across sectors, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and...

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Migration, income redistribution, and international capital mobility

Meckl, Jürgen - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 1994

This paper studies income-redistribution effects from labor migration in a small open economy under alternative assumptions on the international mobility of capital. Our principal result is that induced international capital flows dampen or may even reverse redistribution effects. However, as...

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Trade and the political economy of redistribution

Vannoorenberghe, Gonzague; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013

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