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Showing 1 to 20 of 593 for “"international trade"”.
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International trade agreements.
In recent years, the use of the mode of regional trade liberalisation has proliferated, while the multilateral talks through the WTO have proceeded slowly, resulting in a debate on the role of bilateral and multilateral trade liberalisation. This thesis aims to provide new insights to this debate …
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Essays on International Trade
… studies issues at the intersection of trade policy, labor market outcomes, and firms' productivity. It consists of three chapters.</p><p>Chapter 1 investigates firms' importing and exporting decision-making and how these decisions impact firms' future productivity. First, I document …
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Essays in international trade
… is a collection of essays on the effect of trade costs on international trade. Chapter 1 derives and empirically examines how factor proportions determine the structure of commodity trade when international trade is costly. It combines a many-country version of the Heckscher-Ohlin model with …
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Product Differentiation in International Trade
… product quality in explaining observed price and trade patterns. The first chapter introduces the topic, summarizes the main findings of the dissertation and contrasts them to other results in the literature. The second chapter develops a tractable general equilibrium model that includes quality …
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International Trade: A Justice Approach
<p>The current international trade regime is flawed, unjust and in need of redress. It largely ignores concerns for global economic justice, and fails those most in need of a strategy to help them move out of extreme poverty. It exacerbates inequalities, both between states in global society and …
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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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Finance leasing in international trade
The thesis is on “Finance Leasing in International trade”. It considers the question “How well does English law recognise and encourage the use of finance leasing in equipment trade?” The discussion shows that, on the one hand, English law has recognised the financing nature of finance leasing. It …
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International trade and environmental regulations
… Chapter I extensively reviews the literature on trade and the environment published since 1970.
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Three essays on international trade
This thesis consists of three essays about international trade and wage inequality. Essay I characterizes optimal trade and FDI policies in a model with monopolistic competition and firm-level heterogeneity similar to Helpman et al. (2004). I find that both the optimal import tariffs and the …
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The International Trade Center Curacao
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Three essays in international trade
This thesis is a collection of three essays in international trade. Chapter 1 explains how firm heterogeneity and market structure can distort the geography of international trade. By considering only the intensive margin of trade, Krugman (1980) predicts that a higher elasticity of substitution …
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Essays on International Trade and Development
<p>This dissertation consists of three essays. Using firm-level data from Korea, the first and second chapter examine Korean firms' offshoring strategies and the impact of these offshoring activities on firm-level employment in Korea. In the third chapter, the recent pattern of wage inequality is …
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Three Essays in International Trade Policy
… 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 model, any transfer of a …
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Essays on immigration and international trade
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Essays on Firms in International Trade
… how a firm responds to a changing environment in international trade through three distinct topics. I examine how firms adjust their technology investment to foreign competition and demand, and how firm performance is affected by a global trade policy shock. And I investigate the dynamics of …
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Essays on international trade and institutions
… consists of three essays in the intersection of International Trade and Institutions. The first essay looks at the effect of trade opening on the efficiency of institutions. I argue that part of the reason why some developing economies have not experienced a boost in economic performance despite …
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Essays in International Trade and Macroeconomics
The thesis consists of three essays on international trade, macroeconomics and finance. In the first essay (joint with Marc de la Barrera and Masao Fukui), we study how the interaction between China's productivity growth and currency peg to the US dollar affected the labor market and trade …
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Essays on macroeconomics and international trade
… has changed the patterns of North-South trade and analyzes its effects on wage inequality. It provides theoretical and empirical results on wage polarization and a changes in the pattern of specialization. Finally, the third chapter provides a framework for estimating technological …
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