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The purpose of this research is to examine the following research question: how has enforcement of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) adapted to the Big Box business system innovation? Additionally, the study explored the possible nature of regulatory choke points that may emerge from...
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Non-market valuation techniques are vital instruments of policy. Providing quantitative welfare estimates validates public policy decisions. This research independently addresses three aspects of nonmarket valuation. Hedonic valuation of industrial accidents, limitations in recreational demand...
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sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the US sugar program; and a final section … program is becoming unsustainable because sugar imports are progressively creeping into the US market through regional trade … reductions in amber box limits under a potential Doha Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The current support …
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number of firms in the economy. Third, we examine the relationship between openness to trade and the environment. The impact …This paper develops a pollution model of trade in differentiated goods. Our analyses show the following: first, the … of intra-industry trade is shown to be the sum of the scale, technique and selection effects. Fourth, we undertake an …
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marginal amenity benefit exceeds the marginal external cost reductions due to the input tax. Terms of trade effects imply that … of major players within the WTO agriculture-environment sphere. …
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This work provides an extensive review of the literature on trade and environmentalissues that has been growing since … scattered.Next, we contribute to this literature by studying a Ricardian model of trade,in which one of the sectors uses a … renewable resource as a factor of production. Thecontribution lies in the study of trade and welfare through the full horizon of …
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As increasingly large volumes of sophisticated options (called derivative securities) are traded in world financial markets, determining a fair price for these options has become an important and difficult computational problem. Many valuation codes use the binomial pricing model, in which the...
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state, on the whole. Specifically, I examine three aspects associated with globalization, trade openness, investment and IMF … that open trade and investment lead to improved personal integrity rights. In addition, investment which originates from …
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This research investigates the impact of trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth. Using a … also finds evidence that FDI has significant effects on economic growth. While international trade does not significantly …
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Conclusion: This paper has assessed the empirical relationship between exchange rate volatility and survey measures of household and business confidence in Australia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore. Caution needs to be used in interpreting this relationship, because the number of...
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