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Trade Policy and Labor Services : Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...

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An Adverse Social Welfare Effect of Quadruply Gainful Trade

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020

Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...

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North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

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Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

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How opportunity costs decrease the probability of war in an incomplete information game

Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2008

This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite...

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International trade and its effects on economic growth in China

Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - 2010

the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …

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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Small state regional cooperation, South-South and South-North migration, and international trade

Schiff, Maurice - 2010

This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...

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Business conditions and default risks across countries

Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - 2011

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...

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