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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"Trade Policy"”.
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FOREIGN AID FOR TRADE POLICY REFORMS
… means to induce a recipient country to engage in trade policy reforms. For this purpose, we develop a two-good and two-country model where the donor commits to give foreign aid in the first period and disburses in the second period. The donor`s commitment for foreign aid is based on an equation …
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Three Essays in International Trade Policy
… is divided into three essays which address policy issues in the area of international trade. The first essay again poses the old question of whether a transfer of some of its endowment by a country could benefit the transferor. It is for the first time rigorously shown that in a two-country …
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Three Essays on Agricultural Trade Policy
… and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures on agricultural trade. The first essay estimates the impact of the 2003 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak in the US on Japanese beef imports. I develop a source-differentiated demand system of fresh/chilled and frozen beef imports augmented with …
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Trade Policy, Processing, and New Zealand Forestry
… sector. This is particularly so with respect to trade policy aspects. It is a well accepted fact that there has been an imbalance of effort within New Zealand which has led to numerous models of the forest resource and limited attention to the market, and in particular models of the small open …
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Antidumping legislation : South Africa's anti-trade policy
Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-68).
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Essays on international trade policy and international outsourcing
This thesis analyzes two issues in international trade: trade policy determination and international outsourcing. The first three chapters introduce the firm as a novel unit of analysis in the political economy of trade policy. Chapter 1 takes a standard model of political economy of trade policy …
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TRADE POLICY AND THE LABOR MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM KOREA
<p>This dissertation investigates the effect of trade liberalization in a trading partner country on labor market outcomes, and the export wage premium. The first chapter studies the impact of trade liberalization in China on the firm-level skilled labor employment share in Korea. The second …
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Transaction Costs and the Political Economy of Trade Policy
The third paper provides a transaction cost explanation to the pattern of industrial expansion in the ready-made garment sector of Bangladesh. It shows how economic policies through their effect on property rights can change transaction cost and thereby affect economic outcome. The paper argued …
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THE EFFECTS OF LOSS AVERSION ON TRADE POLICY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
We study the implications of loss aversion for trade policy determination and show how it allows us to explain a number of important and puzzling features of trade policy. An important question concerning trade policy is why a disproportionate share of protection goes to declining industries. We …
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Economic growth, trade policy and the environment in Indonesia / Anna Strutt.
… that policies which increase growth, such as trade liberalization, may have ambiguous effects on the natural environment
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Three Essays on Trade Policy and Impacts of Regional Demographic Changes
The third paper attempts to calculate the Korean import demand elasticities on a disaggregate level using three approaches-the traditional approach, household maximization approach, and GDP function approach. The traditional approach has no micro-foundations and the household maximization approach …
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Foreign Trade Policy and Area Redevelopment, 1955-1956: A Case Study
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Essays in applied microeconomics: effects of environmental and trade policy shocks
… the domestic market in response to external trade shocks, mitigating part of the export losses.
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United States post-Cold War drug and trade policy and Mexico
… with other regional interests, most notably trade. It suggests three potential theoretical interests, most notably trade. It suggests three potential theoretical approaches - a conspiracy (realist) theory, a cultural (constructivist) theory, and a compartmentalisation (bureaucratic politics) …
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Thailand's openness and implications for economic and trade policy: an econometric study
… is currently enhancing and promoting intensive trade and investment liberalisation, and has implemented a long-term growth policy in accordance with current regional economic integration, World Trade Organisation obligations and globalisation. Nevertheless, several recent internal and external …
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Essays on strategic trade policy : market uncertainty, incomplete information, and credit rationing
… is a collection of three essays on strategic trade policy. The main purpose of this research is to make contributions to the strategic trade literature by dealing with some of its interesting and important issues. The first essay extends the well-known Brander-Spencer (1985) model, by …
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Essays on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emission Footprints: Accounting, Bias, and Trade Policy
… and the carbon footprint of international trade at the commodity-country level. These uncertainties arise from fragmented emissions accounting frameworks. At the same time, a significant portion of agricultural GHG emissions arises from production within a country to meet external demand, …
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An Evaluation of Pakistan's Rice Trade Policy: A Case Study of Basmati Rice
… Rice exports, compare with those of alternative policy options, and suggest possible policy reforms.
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Trade Shocks and Trade Policy: Firm Export Behaviour and Competition in International Markets
… explores the effects of international trade policy cooperation on firm export behaviour and competition in international markets. It is motivated by three facts. First, firms are increasingly exposed to international trade. World trade has grown by an average of 5% over the last 30 …
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