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Metzler paradox and home market effects in presence of internationally mobile capital and non-traded goods

Biswas, Rajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In models of monopolistic competition with a single factor of production, imposition of tariff can lead (paradoxically) to a drop in the aggregate price index of the import competing sector. The present model first introduces an internationally mobile capital in such a set up. It is found that...

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Tariffs that may fail to protect: A model of trade and public goods

Biswas, Rajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

, tariffs may fail to protect, leading to a Metzler Paradox like situation. This is because the income effect generated due to …

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Market access in global and regional trade

De Sousa, Jose; Mayer, Thierry; Zignago, Soledad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

is twenty three times easier to enter those markets for a Southern country exporter in 2006 than in 1980. While tariffs …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Customs Union: Incentives for Multilateral Tariff Cooperation over Free Trade

Yildiz, Halis Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We examine the implications of a customs union (CU) on the pattern of tariffs, welfare and the prospects for free trade …

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Intellectual Property Rights and Skills Accumulation: A North-South Model of FDI and Outsourcing

Chen, Hung-Ju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study investigates the effects of stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in the South on innovation, skills choice, wage inequality and patterns of production based on a North-South general-equilibrium model with foreign direct investment (FDI) and international outsourcing....

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Preferential trading areas: investment and welfare effects when countries differ in their size

Uppal, Yogesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the investment and welfare effects of a preferential trading area (PTA) on member and non-member countries when countries differ in their relative size. I numerically solve a three-country and two-good model to characterize equilibria pertaining to investment diverting and...

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Exports and productivity selection effects for Dutch firms

Kox, Henk L.M.; Rojas Romasgosa, Hugo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper investigates whether the self-selection hypothesis and other predictions from the heterogeneous-firms trade models can explain the export participation patterns for Dutch firms in manufacturing and services. The results provide strong support for the self-selection hypothesis,...

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Firms' organizational modes with productivity heterogeneity, demand uncertainty and production capacity

Sun, Churen; Tian, Guoqiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper investigates how firms' demand uncertainty with capacity constraints and their productivity heterogeneity affect their making-or-buying organizational choices in a general equilibrium framework with incomplete contracts. It shows that a final-good producer may adopt integrating a part...

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Pure Exporter: Theory and Evidence

Jiangyong, Lu; Yi, Lu; Zhigang, Tao - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper provides the first evidence about pure exporters (i.e., firms exporting all of their output to the foreign market) -- a phenomenon overlooked and cannot be explained in the existing literature. It then offers a generalized model of Melitz (2003) for examining the existence and...

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Trade Protectionism and Intra-industry Trade: A USA - EU Comparison

Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra; Sousa, Cândida; Carvalho, Helena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The aim of this work is to find patterns for products included in the customs tariffs of the USA and the EU (composed … indicators and the tariffs. Finally, we establish a comparison between the two regions by examining possible differences and … similarities. The results show a significant difference in the tariffs applied between the USA and the EU, with the USA presenting …

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