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Strategic Trade Policy With Domestic Cost Asymmetries.

Leahy, D.; Montagna, C. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1997

In this paper we examine optimal strategic trade p[olicy under oligopoly with many home and foreign firms when the … firms have different levels of efficiency and where a trade-off exists between the subsidy bill and firms profits. The first …

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R&D in Developing Countries: What Should Governments Do?.

Neary, J.P. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1999

I consider the implications of recent research for R&D policy in developing countries. Typical new growth models, which assume free entry and no strategic behaviour by R&D producers, are less appropriate for policy guidance than strategic oligopoly models. But the latter have ambiguous...

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Two Islands - Two Monies: the Effect of Breaking the Sterling Link on Anglo-Irish Trade.

Walsh, B. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2000

This paper studies the effect on Anglo-Irish trade breaking the link between the Irish pound and sterling in 1979. A … currency union. Nor did the resultant exchange rate volatility have a significant adverse effect on trade. These results do not … support the belief that currency unions result in increased trade flows, either directly or by reducing exchange rate …

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EMU and the Cohesion Process

Barry, F. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1998

cohesion countries - Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. Trade integration, or economic union, is judged likely to promote …

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Tariffs and Growth in the Late 19th Century.

O'Rourke, K - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1997

This paper is estimating the correlation between tariffs and growth in the late 19th century in the context of three types of growth equation : unconditional convergence equations; conditional convergence equations, associated with Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992); and factor accumulation models of...

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Much Ado About Nothing? Italian Trade Policy in the late 19th Century.

Federico, G.; O'Rourke, K.H. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1999

A simple look at nominal or effective tariff rates is not sufficient to analyse the trade policy. One has to consider …

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Trade, FDI and Congestion: the Small and Very Open Economy.

Dascher, K. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2000

Typically, a small and open economy trades goods at given worl prices. Here, we present a model of a very open small economy, where capital and labor are internationally mobile, too. When targeting mobile capital ("FDI"), the economy's government attracts not only mobile capital but mobile...

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A Social Accounting Matrix for Italy.

Federico, G.; O'Rourke, K. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1998

estimated all input, output, expenditure, trade and income flows for the economy in that year. These flows are all mutually …

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The Structure of EU-CEE Intra-Industry Trade.

Thom, R. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1999

This paper presents an analysis of the growth and structure of EU-CEE intra-industry trade since the latter commenced … their economic transition in the late 1980's. Section 2 outlines the economic rationale for intra-industry trade and its … classification into horizontal and vertical two-way trade. Section 3 discusses the empirical classification of trade flows. Rather …

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