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for trade such that given standard assumptions about behavior under uncertainty, the equilibrium allocation would …
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Traditional trade models ignoring the dimension of product quality generally lead to excessively low trade price … elasticities. In this paper, we show that higher estimated trade price elasticities, more in conformity with theory, can be … obtained by controlling product quality in trade equations. To do so, we have estimated trade equations including a product …
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This paper assesses the strength of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) which posits an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and pollution, in the light of a number of recent criticisms.
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trade theory. Although the latter has experienced an impressive development in the last ten years, a comprehensive analysis …
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This paper focuses on the possible effects on lobbying effort of a reform of the trade policy decision mechanism. In …
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Within an open economy, redistributive taxation makes home output scarcer, thereby improving the terms of trade all …
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In the developed world the cost of meeting environmental regulations appears to be rising over time. Since the stringency of such regulations increases with economic development there has been speculation that developing countries may possess a comparative advantage in pollution intensive...
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disaggregated data det to find some evidence of hysteresis in trade flows (rather stronger for German imports than for British) and …
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Are home and foreign products equally close substitutes? Our study uses highly disaggregated data to investigate the home preference bias in the Swedish fabricated metals sector, which appears to be declining.
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