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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"domestic trade"”.
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Three Essays on Firms' Behavior in International Trade
Chapter 1 examines examines how trade finance may help explain the great trade collapse. The financial crisis of 2008-2009, the most severe world macroeconomic shock since the Great Depression, brought about a much more dramatic collapse in trade relative to GDP. This is called the "great trade …
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The Jones Act : an economic and political evaluation
… a cabotage law, restricts American waterborne domestic trade to vessels flagged in the United States, owned by citizens of the United States, operated by citizens of the United States, and built in the United States. This highly restrictive law has become an integral part of American maritime …
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Seaport Vulnerability to Criminal Networks: A Mixed Method Approach to Measuring Criminological Vulnerability in the Top 30 U.S. Container Ports
… points for the majority of international and domestic trade criminal network access to a port can provide outsized benefits. While ports are physical spaces they are underlined by complex systems incorporating public and private agencies, companies and small entities. Underlying the …
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The role of interstate trade and crop insurance programs on the U.S. agriculture’s capacity to adapt to climate change
… discusses the relationship between interstate trade and the mitigation of native impacts caused by increasing frequency of severe droughts due to climate change. I combine two commonly used reduced form models: gravity equation and Ricardian analysis to study how drought will affect the …
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Essays on location and trade
… among cities and regions. The pattern of domestic and international trade and the growth of a nation are intimately related to the country’s regional and urban structure. The theoretical and empirical essays in this dissertation analyze the consequences of these observations, seeking to …
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The inefficies of the dispute settlement systems in Zambia: Alternative dispute resolution, as a supplement to litigation
… of development and growth of International and domestic trade over the years, there has been a large number of disputes. This is because of the interaction that exists between people or entities. The traditional legal response to settle these disputes has been for a lawyer of one of the parties …
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Essays in international trade, political economy of protection and firm heterogeneity
… chapters study the effect of foreign lobbies on trade policy of a country which is a member of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). They rely on a monopolistically competitive political economy model in which the government determines external tariffs endogenously. In the first paper the effect of …
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Essays on the Effects of Immigration on Labor Markets
… as a quasi-experiment and the near universe of domestic firm-to-firm transaction data from VAT records, we show that the immigration shock propagates both forward and backward along the supply chain. Firms in non-host regions who directly or indirectly buy from host regions demand more labor. …
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Essays in Industrial Policy, Misallocation and Production Networks
… like urban infrastructure, subsidy drives, or trade liberalization, affect equilibrium selection. Types of counterfactual equilibria further allow decomposition of observed effects into fundamentals- versus coordination-driven. I apply this method to study industrial zones in India. Using a …