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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Autarky"”.
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The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Under Risk-Sharing Arrangements: Schooling and Consumption Smoothing in Rural Mexico
… forcing households to make choices under autarky. I evaluate the effect of alternative program designs that were also considered in other papers which did not incorporate inter-household transfers. I find that the number of years of schooling completed at age 18 is 0.5 years lower under …
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An application of optimal control theory in welfare economics
… the Pontryagin maximum principle. We consider an autarky and a command economy. We explore the interaction of impatience and productivity in autarky and the implications of different maxims of distributive justice in a command economy.
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An analysis of the role of financialisation, China and stockholding in agricultural commodity price movements
… patterns. The model shows that a move away from autarky reduces stock levels in China and in the rest of the world resulting in lower global stock levels. In the two scenarios where China imports but does not export global stocks decline by 23 and 32 per cent, respectively, compared to autarky. …
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Economic structure and social order development in Post-Socialist Europe
… society. After several decades of relative ‘bloc autarky’, the ongoing process of reintegration across the post-socialist region has resulted in varying patterns of interaction with the international economy. This study will focus primarily on the links with the international economy that are …
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Rotating Saving and Credit Associations in Cameroon: Contractual arrangements between members
… less utility than if they would living in autarky. There are optimal membership sizes and contribution in which members derive more utility than any other RoSCA. Finally, poor members benefit relatively more from participating in RoSCAs than wealthy members.
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Three essays on oligopolistic competition, product differentiation and international trade
… in which firms face an initial period of autarky. Trade takes place in the subsequent period and firms fully anticipate switches in trade regimes. Results suggest that historical (domestic) conditions matter a lot on the international market place. Firms that come from countries with a …
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Ill fares the Land? The concept of national food self sufficiency in political discourse 1880-1939.
… which sought to follow self sufficiency ¿ or autarky ¿ are portrayed as warlike in their intentions; by 1939 all mainstream political parties rejected the notion of artificially increased food production. Those who continued to press for increased food production concentrated either upon …
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Essays on International economics by Sergi Basco.
… appear in a financially developed economy in autarky. In contrast, as globalization progresses, more financially underdeveloped economies have access to world capital markets and the possibility of having a bubble in the financially developed country increases. It also shows that, conditional …
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From the Ashes of History: Trauma, National Identity and State-Building in India and Israel
… narration legitimated a consensus logic that autarky was vital to India’s security, influencing foreign economic policymaking for decades. Next, I examine the role of Holocaust memory in Israeli foreign policy discourse after independence. I argue that the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann augured …
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Three Essays on Networks
… of trade networks ranges from complete market to Autarky. Also, we study the optimal timing for trade relationship establishment and the optimal size of organizations when facing scarce members. It is shown that when potential neighbors become more scarce, people care more about the future, or new …
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Nazi "chic"? : Fashioning women in the Third Reich
… the fashion industry, the economic policies of autarky and aryanization, clothing problems on the home front, clothes and clothing production in the concentration camps, and the constant contradictions between ideology, governmental directives, and daily realities. In this way, the story of …
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Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism
… Adorno’s contestation of philosophy’s absolute autarky by way of disciplinary conflicts with sociology and psychoanalysis, along with the ur-conflict Adorno opens between philosophy and art- aesthetics. The second part of this project takes up the early writings of Benjamin (~1928), whom I …
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Essays in Optimal Fiscal Policy
… are compared in terms of policy and welfare: autarky (closed economy), partial union (international borrowing allowed), and full union (transfers between governments allowed).
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Essays in International Macroeconomics and Finance
… cannot improve upon the outcome under financial autarky. Finally, results show that the conjunction of pruning methods and endogenous discount factors can remove explosive behaviour from this class of models and restore equilibrating properties. In Chapter 3, I use a panel of 20 emerging market …
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Wage Policy in a Global World
… particular, the study shows that a movement from autarky to free trade with a fully symmetric partner country lowers union wage claims and therefore stimulates employment and raises welfare. Whether firms can extract a larger share of rents in the open economy depends on the competitive …
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The Aphoristic Moment: Modernist Literature and the Quotable Self
… encapsulation of his theory of secluded artistic autarky and an instrument for this very autarky’s furtherance. Wishing to see Wilde as breaking away from the truly decadent model for writing advanced and practiced by Walter Pater, my thesis proposes the aphorism as a central tool in this rupture, …
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Essays on Money and Credit: A New Monetarist Approach
… a payoff that is lower than that associated with autarky while borrowers: buyers) cannot commit to any contract. A borrower's ability to repay a loan is privately observable. As a result, the terms of credit within an enduring relationship change over time according to the history of trades. …
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Essays on macroeconomics and contract theory
… In the worst equilibrium the government is in autarky. However, in reality, we do not observe the autarkic solution. Motivated by an apparent disconnection between theory and reality, I characterize a lower bound on the utility that the government can obtain for any positive probability that …