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A general framework for analysing endogenous trade divergences

Walsh, Patrick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1991

is determined by the market structure chosen to endogenise the divergence. The magnitude of the subsidy in all models is …

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Adverse selection in a community-based health insurance scheme in rural Africa: implications for introducing targeted subsidies

Parmar, Divya; Souares, Aurélia; de Allegri, Manuela; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Background Although most community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes are voluntary, problem of adverse selection is hardly studied. Evidence on the impact of targeted subsidies on adverse selection is completely missing. This paper investigates adverse selection in a CBHI scheme in Burkina...

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Gone for good? Subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002-2013

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

a 6.9% reduction in the ad-valorem subsidy rate available to firms that export all their output is consistent with the …

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China's pure exporter subsidies

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

heterogeneous firm model in which firms exporting all their output receive an ad-valorem sales subsidy. Using microdata on … of our model. Embedding a pure-exporter subsidy in a two-country general equilibrium environment, we show that this … instrument is worse from a welfare standpoint than a standard export subsidy, partly because it increases protection of the …

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Strategic trade and industrial policy towards dynamic oligopolies

Neary, J. Peter; Leahy, Dermot - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

In this paper characterise optimal trade and industrial policy in dynamic oligopolistic markets. If governments can commit to future policies, optimal first-period intervention should diverge from the profit-shifting benchmark to an extent which exactly offsets the strategic behaviour implied by...

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Cheap imports and the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs

Cooke, Abigail; Kemeny, Thomas; Rigby, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms...

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Knowledge-based hierarchies: using organizations to understand the economy

Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the...

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Dynamic selection: an idea flows theory of entry, trade and growth

Sampson, Thomas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper develops an idea flows theory of trade and growth with heterogeneous firms. New firms learn from incumbent firms, but the diffusion technology ensures entrants learn not only from frontier technologies, but from the entire technology distribution. By shifting the productivity...

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Asymmetric industrial energy prices and international trade

Sato, Misato; Dechezlepretre, Antoine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

This paper measures the response of bilateral trade flows to differences in industrial energy prices across countries. Using a panel for the period 1996-2011 including 42 countries, 62 sectors and covering 60% of global merchandise trade, we estimate the short-run effects of sector-level energy...

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Comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relative endowment differences across countries, and consumer taste for variety. The paper demonstrates that firm reactions to trade liberalization generate endogenous Ricardian productivity responses at the...

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