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Financial Globalization in Emerging Countries : Diversification vs. Offshoring

Ceballos, Francisco; Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

important, concurrent dimensions of financial globalization: diversification and offshoring. The diversification dimension … refers to the increase in foreign assets and liabilities in countries' portfolios. Offshoring is related to the reallocation … cross-border holdings. However, financial globalization via offshoring displays more mixed patterns, with variations across …

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Taxes and Caps as Climate Policy Instruments with Domestic and Imported Fuels

Strand, Jon - 2010

This paper develops a global model of climate policy, focusing on the choice between tax and cap-and-trade solutions. The analysis assumes that the world can be split into two regions, with two fuels that both lead to carbon emissions. Region A consumes all fuels, and is responsible for defining...

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Can Environmental Policy Reduce Infant Mortality? : Evidence from the Ganga Pollution Cases

Đỗ-Quý-Toàn; Joshi, Shareen; Stolper, Samuel - 2016

In many developing countries, environmental quality remains low and policies to improve it have been inconsistently effective. This paper conducts a case study of environmental policy, focusing on an unprecedented ruling by the Supreme Court of India, which targeted industrial pollution in the...

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The Economics of Policy Instruments to Stimulate Wind Power in Brazil

Landis, Florian; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2015

Large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies, such as wind power and solar energy, has been taking place in industrialized and developing economics mainly because of various fiscal and regulatory policies. An understanding of the economy-wide impacts of those policies is an important...

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How Fit are Feed-in Tariff Policies? Evidence from the European Wind Market

Zhang, Fan - 2013

Feed-in tariffs have become the most widely used policy instrument to promote renewable energy deployment around the world. This paper examines the relation between tariff setting and policy outcome based on wind capacity expansion in 35 European countries over the 1991-2010 period. Using a...

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China : West or East Wind, Getting the Incentives Right

Song, Yanqin; Berrah, Noureddine - 2013

With rapid development of wind power in China, the following three issues have become barriers for further scale-up: 1) concentration of wind farms in the Three-North region, which became significantly underutilized because of a limited capability of local power grids to off-take and consume...

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Is the U.S. Friend-Shoring, Nearshoring, or Reshoring? Evidence from Greenfield Investment Announcements

Mulabdic, Alen; Nayyar, Gaurav - 2024

This paper examines the evolution of greenfield investment announcements-both domestic and international-for US multinational companies in response to recent global shocks. The results indicate an intensification of reshoring and nearshoring activities by US companies, especially following the...

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What Drives Short-Run Labor Market Volatility in Offshoring Industries? Evidence from Northern Mexico during 2007???2009

Kaplan, David Scott; Lederman, Daniel; Robertson, Raymond - 2013

Recent research shows that employment in Mexico's offshoring maquiladora industries is twice as volatile as employment … emanating from the United States were amplified when transmitted into Mexico's offshoring labor market of Northern Mexico. First …

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Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology

Miguélez, Ernest - 2016

examines the influence exerted by skilled diasporas in fostering cross-country co-inventorship as well as R&D offshoring. The …

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Climate-Informed Decisions : The Capital Investment Plan as a Mechanism for Lowering Carbon Emissions

Lynch, Catherine; Whittington, Jan - 2015

Global trajectories for reducing carbon emissions depend on the local adoption of alternatives to conventional energy sources, technologies, and urban development. Yet, decisions on which type of capital investments to make, made by local governments as part of the normal budget cycle, typically...

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