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Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production
Quantifying the gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge.......
Leverage and Default in Binomial Economies: A Complete Characterization
Our paper provides a complete characterization of leverage and default in binomial economies with financial assets serving as collateral. First, our Binomial.................
US-Tyres: Upholding a WTO Accession Contract – Imposing Pain for Little Gain
In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China under a special-safeguard provision.........
How Well Does Core Inflation Capture Permanent Price Changes?
Does excluding food and energy prices from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) produce a measure that captures permanent price changes? To examine this.............
Environmental Sustainability and Competitiveness: Policy Imperative and Corporate Opportunity
Environmental sustainability has emerged as an important element of corporate strategy and marketplace success.1 Sustainability must also be recognized as a vital............
Driving Restrictions That Work? Quito’s Pico y Placa Program
by Paul Carrillo (co-author Arun Malik and Jiseon Yoo (IIEP and GWU)
Are Sunday Babies Doomed for Life? Measuring the Sunday-Born Achievement Gap in Ecuador
Sunday birth rates in Ecuador have sharply declined, and the drop is larger among young cohorts in urban areas. These trends are attributed to an increase in........................
Sanctuary Markets and Antidumping: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Exporters
Antidumping proponents in the U.S. often argue that foreign firms use profits obtained behind home market barriers to “subsidize” “unfair” pricing abroad...........
The Internet is simultaneously enhancing and restricting human welfare. On one hand, the Internet is creating a virtuous circle of expanding growth, opportunity, and information flows................
Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit..........
