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international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these … coalitions are Stackelberg leaders and set tariffs in addition to their cap-and-trade schemes. Surprisingly, these smaller IEAs … countries import fossil fuel and their tariff takes the form of a subsidy of fuel consumption and a tax on the production of the …
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Trade costs are often cited as an important determinant of the volume of trade. This paper provides enough evidences to … ascertain that today’s trade issues in Northeast Asia go beyond the traditional mechanisms of tariffs, and include “behind … transaction costs along with trade infrastructure facilities have significant influence on regional trade flows in Northeast Asia …
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In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...
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benefits of trade. We assert that this emphasize leads to erroneous student mindset that trade requires specialization based on … and trade with real but paradoxical situations where the same goods are both imported and exported by a country. Students … trade situation for which specialization is not relevant. …
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exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade …
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into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … different comparative mode. That their bilateral closeness is deepening is evident in a number of areas. On the trade front …, India-China bilateral trade has increased by a factor of 33 between 1995 and 2007, and this growth has occurred at an …
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We introduce transport cost of trade in products into the classical Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) model of capital tax …
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policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which incomes depend importantly on trade in dirty goods, where income … interacts with the pollution costs and income benefits of trade in dirty goods to further polarize interests concerning both … environmental stringency and the regulation of trade openness. In this context, we show how the eco-friendliness ranking of …
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This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are … interrelated i.e. bidirectional causality. Feedback hypothesis is validated between trade openness and financial development …
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Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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