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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Trade effects"”.
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Terms of trade effects on PPP and incomes of primary-commodity exporting countries
… currency argument of primary and secondary effects of the terms of trade on exchange rates and real income, respectively. The Johansen procedure of cointegration testing is applied to dynamic models for a set of four developed countries (New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Iceland) and five …
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Explaining Variation Between U.S. States in the Trade Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
… economic activity, including international trade. Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw the monetary value of its trade fall by about 12%, or $676 billion. Crucially, these effects were not evenly distributed throughout the country. My research addresses this variation. Existing …
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Will potential entry to European Union impact future of the fishing industry in Iceland?
… in to impact of the investment, employment and trade effects in the Icelandic fish sector. The crisis in 2008 has changed Icelandic attitude towards European Union. Icelandic politics used to be more sceptical about European Union but after the crisis more politicians started to look at …
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Transport under Emission Trading
… Emission Trading System. Including terms-of-trade effects, this model does not account for congestion which is the main externality of road transport. Furthermore, technological details of electricity generation which are an important factor in evaluating climate policies are not included. …
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The Effectiveness of Industrial Countrys' Preferential Market Access Arrangements on Stimulating Caribbean Exports
… is confined to evaluating the effectiveness of trade preferences extended by major industrial countries. Two approaches are used to make this evaluation. The first approach is a gravity trade model that relies in both time series and cross-sectional data. The Gravity equation includes variables …
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"Quota Measures" and "Trade-Related Investment Measures" in Oil and Gas Regulation: Reconciling Normative Conflicts between Energy-focused Regimes and WTO Rules on Energy
… from the perspective of quota measures and trade-related investment measures (TRIMs) implemented through the instrumentality of national laws, acts of NOCs (in the oil sector) and acts of non-state undertakings (in the gas sector). It therefore charts an uncommon territory and brings a new …
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A CGE Analysis of the Employment Double Dividend-Hypothesis : Substitution Patterns in Production, Foreign Trade, and Labour Market Imperfections
… to lower pollution. It assesses the employment effects of ecological tax reforms in a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model framework for 14 countries of the European Union. The literature survey points to three main determinants for the EDD outcome in empirical models: the substitution …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Domestic and Trade Policies in the Presence of Production and Consumption Externalities
… the Grossman-Helpman models of endogenous trade policy formation to incorporate local and global production and consumption externalities, and to allow governments to choose domestic production or consumption policies together with trade interventions. The models presented are among the …
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Technical Regulations as Barriers to Agricultural Trade
… is becoming increasingly visible in agricultural trade disputes. A distinguishing feature of technical barriers is their legitimate use by governments to protect consumers' health, recognize citizen preferences in packaging and labeling, and protect the environment from the establishment of …
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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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Essays on International Trade and Sovereign Debt
This thesis studies the way intratemporal trade matters for intertemporal trade, focusing on three different interactions through sovereign debt. The thesis is divided in 3 chapters. In the first chapter, I show that existing evidence suggests that sovereign defaults disrupt international trade. As …
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Three Essays in Empirical Economics
… by 5.59%. The second essay focuses on regional trade agreements (RTAs). A number of studies have found that RTAs significantly increase members' trade flows. While recent studies have begun to explore the reasons for this, none have examined whether the RTA trade effect varies systematically …
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Agriculture, climate change, and adaptation in Morocco: A computable general equilibrium analysis
… case. Including CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization effects induces a slight change in the distribution of impacts, which range from -1.4% to +0.3%. Finally, we evaluated the extent to which PMV could help mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change, and we found that the gain was quite small …
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Internationalisering en interne regulering: Europese Unie milieu-, gezondheids- en consumentenbeschermingsregels 'in de schaduw van de WTO'
… question by studying the influence of the World Trade Organization (WTO), its substantial rules and its dispute settlement mechanism, on European Union (EU) decision-making processes on health, environmental and consumer regulation. Starting with refuting the widely but mistakenly held assumption …
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The dynamics and determinants of South African exports
… export patterns are considered: endowments and trade policy. The thesis also systematically unpacks the nature of the relationship between export patterns and economic development, by critically appraising assumptions regarding this relationship that are implicit in South African economic …
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Sisters Before the Fall
… marriage of prepubescent girls, and the slave trade. A female American volunteer and a female Hispanic doctor meet these women in a humanitarian compound in western Sudan. As they work together to overcome challenges brought on by war, they realize they are sisters, regardless of their …