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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2012

This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...

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Food prices and the multiplier effect of export policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012

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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss...: The social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplifi...

Franke, Maria - 2014

Singapore industrialised rapidly with continuously high growth rates since its independence in 1965 and its population … during the same period of time almost tripled. With development at this scale, Singapore had to grow in number of industrial …, Cambodia and Vietnam) for its sand supply. All major sand supplying countries successively prohibited sand exports to Singapore …

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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss... : the social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplif...

Franke, Maria - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348442

When one country's land gain is another country's land loss...: The social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplifi...

Franke, Maria - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Hochschule für … - 2014

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The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union as an actor in international trade

Woolcock, Stephen - 2010

The Treaty of Lisbon will introduce a number of changes to European Union (EU) external trade policy decision making. These involve the scope of exclusive competence of the EU, the role of the European Parliament and the inclusion of trade in the common external action of the EU. This article...

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Competition policy in an open economy

Francois, Joseph F.; Horn, Henrik - 1998 - Rev.

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to the goals of competition policy (suchas the degree and nature of competition). The issues we address involve thegeneral equilibrium distributional effects of competition...

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Household inequality, welfare, and the setting of trade policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions in a general...

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Universal intellectual property rights : too much of a good thing?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - 2013

This paper studies the incentives that developing countries have to protect intellectual properties rights (IPR). On the one hand, free-riding on rich countries technology reduces their investment cost in R&D. On the other hand, firm that violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that...

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Trade policy in majoritarian systems : the case of the US

Fredriksson, Per; Matschke, Xenia; Minier, Jenny - 2011

We provide a theory of trade policy determination that incorporates the protectionist bias inherent in majoritarian systems, suggested by Grossman and Helpman (2005). The prediction that emerges is that in majoritarian systems, the majority party favors industries located disproportionately in...

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