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The economics literature provides ample evidence that higher corruption discourages FDI inflows. In this paper we address, for the first time in the literature in a systematic way, the exact reverse link, i.e., the empirical effect of FDI inflows on corruption. We present a simple model that...
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protectionist policies in countries where workers will benefit from the imposition of tariffs and quotas. We test and confirm these …
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. The effects of differences in technology and endowments on the pattern of trade and welfare are examined. Import tariffs …
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.The paper shows that a carbon tax should not be differentiated across sectors in the economy, provided import and export tariffs … cooperating countries if they are prevented from using tariffs on the traded goods. Informational or political factors … constraining the use of tariffs are also likely to constrain the possibility of differentiating carbon taxes between sectors …
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Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm …
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the nature of the oligopolistic equilibrium, tariffs may or may not induce foreign direct investment, they may or may not …
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protection implied when crossing a border fell from 180 to 89\% for this same sample. While tariffs still have an influence on …
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This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a decade. The conclusion that liberalisation generally boosts income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some...
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general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine cross …
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Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to trade violations committed by other members …. We show that monetary fines are more efficient than tariffs in terms of granting compensation to injured parties when … violating country. If fines must ultimately be supported by the threat of retaliatory tariffs, they fail to yield a more …
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