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作者：Noland, M
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作者：SannaRandaccio, F
摘要：This paper examines the welfare effects of eliminating non-tariff barriers (NTBs), when firms expand abroad via export or direct investment (DI). Two broad categories of NTBs are considered according to whether they discriminate only against the foreign exporter (Type I) or also against the local subsidiary of the foreign-owned firm (Type II). It is shown that the welfare impact of market integration depends upon its influence on firms' international strategies and that such influence is a fun...
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作者：Yi, SS
摘要：Consider an environment in which ex-ante symmetric countries can form customs unions freely. What are the welfare effects on member and non-member countries of the formation of welfare-maximizing customs unions? What are the properties of stable customs-union structures? Can one design a rule of customs-union formation which, supports global free trade as an equilibrium outcome? I show that the formation of customs unions improves the aggregate welfare of member countries but reduces the welfa...
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作者：Chao, CC; Yu, ESH
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Oregon State University
摘要：This paper provides a general equilibrium model for examining the individual as well as the joint effects of export requirements and local equity controls of multinational firms. The results suggest that for a small open economy under tariff protection, the desirable policy is 100% foreign ownership of subsidiaries, coupled with an export-share requirement.
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作者：Song, EY
摘要：This paper investigates the effects of voluntary export restraints (VERs) in the presence of potential entrants and technology transfers. It builds a model of a licensing game in a Cournot oligopoly market, and examines conditions under which VERs induce restrained foreign firms to transfer technologies to potential suppliers. I show that a VER can decrease the profit and output of the domestic incumbent by perturbing the no-licensing equilibrium reached under free trade and inducing the marke...
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作者：Harrigan, J
摘要：How open are the advanced economies to trade with each other? In this paper, openness is calculated relative to the predictions of the monopolistic competition trade model using data on manufacturing trade and production in the OECD in 1985. The paper finds that (1) Japan imports much less than other large OECD countries, while the European countries have larger import volumes than does the US, (2) Japan and the US engage in less intra-industry trade than the rest of the OECD, and (3) the EU c...
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作者：Norrbin, SC; Schlagenhauf, DE
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Empirical research has been conducted on the various theories of the business cycle over many countries. However, very little research has attempted to undertake a multi-country disaggregate investigation into the sources of output change. This paper decomposes fluctuations in industry output in a particular country into: (1) a nation-specific shock; (2) an industry-specific shock; (3) a common shock; and (4) an idiosyncratic factor. Using a dynamic factor analysis state-space approach, the pa...
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作者：Rodrik, D
作者单位：Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Poor countries must specialize in standardized, labor-intensive commodities. Middle-income countries may have a richer menu of options if their labor force is reasonably well educated and skilled. The multiplicity of equilibria is due to a coordination problem inherent in activities that require specialized inputs. If no intermediate inputs are presently produced, there may be little incentive for any single firm to do so on its own. The economy may get stuck in a low-wage, low-tech equilibriu...
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作者：Greaney, TM
摘要：Proponents claim that voluntary import expansions (VIEs) increase foreign access to a domestic market while increasing competition and reducing prices. Using a Bertrand model, I show that a VIE produces exactly the opposite results. A VIE that increases the market share of imports above the prevailing level results in higher prices in the domestic market. This result holds even when the domestic market is assumed to be protected by a tariff-type barrier prior to the imposition of a VIE. A VIE ...
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作者：Driskill, RA; Horowitz, AW
摘要：This paper analyzes strategic trade policy when home and foreign duopolists produce a durable good that is either sold or leased in a third country. Durability is important for two reasons: it characterizes most of the products discussed in the strategic trade literature, and it also calls for explicit dynamic modeling. For duopolists who sell their product in a third-country market, this paper finds the optimal policy to be a tax on domestic output. For duopolists who lease the good in a thir...
