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general equilibrium analysis that carbon based import tariffs are more effective as a menace towards China than for saving CO2 … womöglich eher als Drohung gegenüber China als zur Einsparung von CO2-Emissionen eignen. Kapitel 5 weist im Rahmen einer …
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This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has …-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade does not appear to account for observed and anticipated trade flows …. This is consistent with findings in the commodity trade literature that, although markets may behave in a rational economic …
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China’s agricultural and trade policies have been shifting despite little change in policy objectives. This paper … investigates potential implications of recent agriculture policies applied in China, and quantitatively analyzes their impacts on … farmers and lowering domestic prices to consumers. China’s producers increase production slightly because of increased input …
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This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change on China's corn, wheat, and rice, domestic agricultural … literature of climate change effects on China's crop yields. The paper presents the potential impact of climate change on China … under CO2 fertilization, which increases yields, China's grain imports may decrease leading to a decrease in international …
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In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … integration and trade liberalization. Many analysts have commented on China’s increasing foreign reserves. The US trade deficit …
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Das Wachstum multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) wird zunehmend durch Investitionen von Dienstleistungsunternehmen vorangetrieben. Die Produktion von Dienstleistungen unterscheidet sich allerdings in mehreren Aspekten von der Herstellung klassischer Industriegüter. Eine zentrale Eigenschaft ist...
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Multiple natural experiments of large jackpot lotteries in Taiwan are used to document a substitution effect between individual investor trading and lottery buying. We establish five key findings. First, when the jackpot exceeds 500 million Taiwan dollars (about 15 million U.S. dollars), the...
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trade flows of nations, and the consequential implications for the levels of per capita income and welfare of their … populations. The first of these documents a pattern of comparative advantage in product level, bilateral trade data that … conventional quantitative trade models have difficulty explaining. It goes on to develop a theory of product level productivity …
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First chapter aims to quantify the role of trade in capital goods incross country income differences. I construct a … multi-country general equilibriummodel of trade along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Alvarezand Lucas (2007) and … introduce trade in capital goods and capital accumulation.In this framework, comparative advantage and the costs of …
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This dissertation consists of three essays in International Trade. The first essay studies the impact of changing … trade flows to such an extent that the relatively moderate tariff reductions since WW II can explain the strong growth of … world trade. The second essay investigates the sector and country determinants of the range of goods that countries export …
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