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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"gains from trade"”.
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Three essays on increasing returns to scale and international trade theory
… on the problems of existence of equilibrium, gains from trade and the effects of increasing returns in developing countries.
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Essays on Money, Trade and the Labour Market
… and inshored tasks, the distribution of the gains from trade critically depends on the time horizon. Workers with human capital specific to the inshored tasks gain over those performing offshored tasks in the short term. In the long run, the gains from trade are equally distributed among …
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Three essays in financial economics
… prefers agents with priors very different from his own. The principal will create a contract that includes side-bets to exploit gains from trade created by heterogeneous priors despite the distortionary effect on effort choice. In a semi-dynamic labor market, the principal can optimally …
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Three Essays in Financial Economics
… of Eurozone economies in terms of welfare gains from trade. Liquidity and integration have received considerable attention in recent years, particularly within the context of global financial and macroeconomic uncertainty over the last decade. In the first empirical essay, we investigate …
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Trade policy uncertainty
… since the 1990’s. Its exports to the world rose from just 2 percent of the world’s share to close to 13 percent from 1990 to 2017. Its exports to the United States increased even more during the same period, from 3 percent to 33 percent. China’s WTO accession, awarding China permanent most …
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The growth of regionalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
… discuss the ideas of some integration theorists from Sub-Saharan Africa, who came with their own frameworks for the integration to work in the region. I will explain the applicability of other frameworks such as dependency theories and developmentalism, which have been used to explain Third world …
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Three essays in macroeconomics
… is a collection of three essays on international trade and economic growth. Chapter 1 analyzes the dynamic gains from trade in a Hecksher-Ohlin economy with endogenous factor accumulation. In a framework where heterogeneous workers make educational decisions in the presence of complete markets, I …
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Great Ideas (Don't) Sell Themselves: The Disclosure Paradox in Digital Startups Auctions
… at the top is especially significant when gains f rom trade a re concentrated among a few, high-quality ideas. Next, I investigate the disclosure paradox in an online marketplace for early-stage digital start-ups. Sellers can protect their unpatentable ideas through confidentiality …
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Essays on Incentive Designs to Improve Market Performance
… in which land developers purchase offsets from producers, who enhance wetlands. Offset values are aggregated over environmental attributes at fixed exchange ratios to preserve regional “no net loss”. Producers incur a sunk cost and are awarded offsets over time. We find substantial private …
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Essays on the political economy of labor market regulation
… productivity toward lower values and thus away from the supporters of regulation. Bilaterally inefficient separations are a feature of wage setting that can partially reverse this negative result. Now workers value employment protection because it delays involuntary dismissals. Workers in low …
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Essays on trade, CO₂, and the environment
… this thesis uses a general equilibrium model of trade and the environment to investigate two questions. First, how do the gains from trade compare against the environmental costs of trade? Trade can generate environmental costs by requiring long-distance transportation of goods and by relocating …
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Sugar and Rice Trade between the United States and Cuba Trade Potential and Welfare Analysis
… Fidel Castro and forty-five years of the U.S.-trade embargo, the political environment between Cuba and the United States is expected to change. With the Trade Sanction Reform and Export Enhancement Act in 2000, trade sanctions were eased for a while. Future trade between both countries would …
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From plan to market: firm-level adjustment to trade liberalization and business environment reform. Evidence from Vietnam
… three essays, provides empirical evidence of how trade liberalization, together with local business environment features, affects firms' performance in the context of a transitional country, Vietnam. The main focus centres particularly on firms' productivity (the first and second essays). As firms …
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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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Firm heterogeneity in international trade
International trade affects us all. It expands markets for firms to thrive and increases varieties to satisfy consumers. From waking up with a coffee grown on Brazilian trees to closing a light manufactured in China at night, our daily routines are riddled with products that can be provided by …
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Freedom of Transit and Pipeline Gas : Can The World Trade Organization Provide a Viable Legal Framework for the Development of an International Gas Market?
This study discusses how the World Trade Organization could promote the development of an international gas market by playing a more prominent role in regulating rights essential to effective pipeline gas transit. Gas transit is network-dependent in the sense that it cannot be established without …
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Three essays on international economics
… for the elasticity of substitution in line with trade literature for a fairly persistent productivity shock. The final chapter investigates the welfare implications of currency mismatch in a small open economy with a segmented asset market if it receives a monetary shock. In "A Two-Country Model …
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Essays on Public Finance and Information Economics
… imperfect information in labor markets and the tradeoffs the government faces when setting on-linear taxes. The second focuses on the role of heterogeneity in elasticities in affecting those tradeoffs. The third focuses on the imperfect information in financial markets and on how to design …
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Relational contracts, incentives and information
… technologically independent, firms will benefit from reaching multilateral contracts that link their transactional arrangements. Optimal multilateral contracts equalize the shadow cost of incentive constraints on each relationship, something bilateral contracts will generally fail to do. I derive …
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Essays in Development Economics and Trade
… firms in lower-income countries to buy inputs from foreign markets. The growth in smartphone ownership and social media usage has the potential to alleviate these barriers. Informed by a dynamic model of relational contracting, we run a field experiment leveraging these technological tools to …
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