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Do big countries win tariff wars?

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J Kennan… - International Economic Review, 1988 - JSTOR
* Manuscript received July 1986; revised January 1987 l We thank Avinash Dixit and Forrest
Nelson for valuable comments on an earlier draft. 2 For example, Baumol and Blinder (1985,
p. 743) assert that" Tariffs can benefit a country that is able to impose them without fear of ...
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An experimental investigation of the patterns of international trade

CN Noussair, CR Plott… - The American Economic Review, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. An Experimental Investigation of the Patterns of International Trade By CHARLES N.
NOUSSAIR, CHARLES R. PLOTT, AND RAYMOND G. RIEZMAN * This paper studies a laboratory
economy with some of the prominent features of an international economic system. ...
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Optimal tariff equilibria with customs unions

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J Kennan… - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1990 - JSTOR
We construct a model of customs unions in which countries charge optimal tariffs. Customs
unions internalize the externality that exists whenever two countries import the same good.
Also, customs unions make several countries into one large unit with more market power. ...
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The engine of growth or its handmaiden?

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RG Riezman, CH Whiteman… - Empirical Economics, 1996 - Springer
Page 1. ImIIIIIIEM P IR I CAL Empirical Economics (1996)21:77-110 |
IIEIIIIECONOMICS The Engine of Growth or its Handmaiden? A Time-Series
Assessment of Export-Led Growth RAYMOND G. R1EZMAN AND CHARLES ...
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Trade shocks and macroeconomic fluctuations in Africa

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MA Kose… - Journal of Development Economics, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper examines the role of external shocks in explaining macroeconomic fluctuations in
African countries. We construct a quantitative, stochastic, dynamic, multi-sector equilibrium
model of a small open economy calibrated to represent a “typical” African country. ...
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Seniority in legislatures

RD McKelvey… - American Political Science Review, 1992 - JSTOR
We construct a stochastic model of a legislature with an endogeneously determined
seniority system. We model the behavior of the legislators as well as their constituents as an
infinitely repeated divide-the-dollar game. The game has a stationary equilibrium with the ...
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Dynamic tariffs with asymmetric information

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R Riezman - Journal of International Economics, 1991 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent developments in dynamic game theory are applied to determine when two
countries can sustain freer trade given that they determine trade policies non-cooperatively.
Countries know their own level of protection, but not the other country's level of protection. ...
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Customs unions and the core

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R Riezman - Journal of International Economics, 1985 - Elsevier
Abstract Customs union formation is modeled as a two-stage game. In the first stage
countries make coalitional choices according to core theory. In the second stage optimal
tariffs are determined. This yields a theory that predicts which customs unions form. An ...
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Tariff retaliation from a strategic viewpoint

R Riezman - Southern Economic Journal, 1982 - JSTOR
One of the most perplexing questions in international trade concerns the rationale for the
existence of widespread barriers to trade in the current world economy.-The numerous
explanations that have been offered for the existence of tariffs are generally based on one ...
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A strategic and welfare theoretic analysis of free trade areas

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EW Bond, RG Riezman… - Journal of International …, 2004 - Elsevier
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Uncertainty and the choice of trade policy in oligopolistic industries

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R Cooper… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1989 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper investigates the design of trade policies in an uncertain world.
Governments in each of two countries select between direct quantity controls and subsidies
in an attempt to shift profits in favour of domestic, imperfectly competitive firms. The ...
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A 3× 3 model of customs unions

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R Riezman - Journal of International Economics, 1979 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper we develop a three-country-three-good model of customs unions. The
main result is that a sufficient condition for two countries to benefit from forming a customs
union is that they are similar in the sense that their mutual trade is small. This result is ...
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Trade and the distribution of human capital

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S Bougheas… - Journal of International Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
We develop a two-country, two-sector model of trade where the only difference between the
two countries is their distribution of human capital endowments. We show that even if the two
countries have identical aggregate human capital endowments the pattern of trade ...
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Can bilateral trade agreements help induce free trade

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R Riezman - 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: There has been growing debate about whether bilateral trade agreements are
damaging multilateral efforts to eliminate barriers to international trade. This paper develops
a model in which trading blocks always charge optimal tariffs and make trade agreements ...
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The principles of exchange rate determination in an international finance experiment

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CN Noussair, CR Plott… - Journal of Political Economy, 1997 - JSTOR
Page 1. The Principles of Exchange Rate Determination in an International Finance
Experiment Charles N. Noussair Purdue University Charles R. Plott California Institute
of Technology Raymond G. Riezman University of Iowa ...
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Endogenous choice of trade policy instruments

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W Mayer… - Journal of International Economics, 1987 - Elsevier
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Fragmentation and services

N Van Long, R Riezman… - The North American Journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
We develop a model that explores the link between services and fragmentation. In our
model components used in the manufacturing process are made with services and labor.
Low foreign wages create an incentive to outsource component production (fragmentation ...
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Outsourcing of innovation

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ELC Lai, R Riezman… - Economic Theory, 2009 - Springer
Abstract This paper looks at the outsourcing of research and development (R&D) activities.
We consider cost reducing R&D and allow manufacturing firms to decide whether to
outsource the project to research subcontractors or carry out the research in-house. We ...
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Minorities and storable votes

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A Casella, T Palfrey… - 2005 - nber.org
The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of
minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of
votes to spend as desidered over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on ...
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Understanding the welfare implications of preferential trade agreements

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M Ayhan Kose… - Review of International …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
2. Abstract This paper examines various implications of preferential trade agreements,
namely customs unions and free trade areas, in the context of a multicountry general
equilibrium model. The model is calibrated to represent countries with symmetric ...
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Tariffs and collection costs

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R Riezman… - Review of World Economics, 1987 - Springer
Conclusion Tariffs and export taxes may comprise part of a first-best tax package if their cost
of collection is lower than alternative means of raising revenue. Using various proxies for
relative collection costs, and holding constant standard indices of development, we find ...
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Fixed Transport Costs and International Trade

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D Laussel… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We develop a simple two-country model of international trade that assumes that
there is a fixed cost of doing international trade. We show that this leads to multiple equilibria
that can be Pareto-ranked. We examine the stability properties of these equilibria.
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Metrics Capturing the Degree to which Individual Economies are Globalized

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R Riezman, J Whalley… - CESifo Working Paper Series …, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We discuss metrics of globalization for individual economies as distance measures
between fully integrated and trade restricted equilibria in economies initially operating under
less than full integration with the global economy. Such metrics can be used to construct ...
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Comparing draws for single elimination tournaments

J Horen… - Operations Research, 1985 - JSTOR
Tournaments are used to select a single winner from a group of participants in a sporting
event or a paired-comparison experiment. This study compares different draws, or pairings,
of teams in single-elimination tournaments under a set of relatively nonrestricting ...
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Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady‐State Analysis*

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R Riezman… - Review of International Economics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We would like to dedicate this paper to the memory of our dear friend and colleague Koji
Shimomura, whose stimulating work in trade and growth has inspired all of us. We are
grateful for comments and suggestions by Eric Bond, Ronald Jones, Murray Kemp, an ...
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Politics and trade policy

R Riezman… - Modern political economy, 1995 - books.google.com
The view that politics plays an important part in determining trade policy is widely accepted
among international trade economists. Evidence of this can be seen in the recent surge of
research activity focusing on a variety of questions concerning how the political decision- ...
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VOTER PREFERENCES FOR TRADE POLICY INSTRUMENTS*

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W Mayer… - Economics & Politics, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze voter preferences for tariffs and production subsidies. The distribution of tax
revenues argument shows that voters with high direct tax burdens prefer tariffs to subsidies.
The uncertainty argument demonstrates that if actual tariff and subsidy rates are chosen ...
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Trade, wage gaps, and specific human capital accumulation

NV Long, R Riezman… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We develop a new framework for the analysis of the impact of trade liberalization
on the wage structure. Our model focuses on the decision of workers to accumulate firm-
specific skills, by" on-the-job" training, knowing that this means their future wages will ...
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Is partial tax harmonization desirable?

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P Conconi, C Perroni… - Journal of Public Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
We consider a setting in which capital taxation is characterized by two distortions working in
opposite directions. On one hand, governments engage in tax competition and are tempted
to lower capital tax rates. On the other hand, they are unable to commit to future policies ...
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TARIFF FORMATION IN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL VOTING MODEL*

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W Mayer… - Economics & Politics, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
The theory of endogenous trade policy formation argues that tariffs emerge from the political
process. This occurs because of conflicting economic interests trying to redistribute income
in their favor through the adoption of suitable trade policies. Mayer and Riezman (1987) ...
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Small Countries and Preferential Trade Agreements: How Severe is the Innocent Bystander Problem?

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MA Kose… - Pacific Economic Review, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper the welfare implications of preferential trade agreements (PTA) are examined
from the perspective of small countries in the context of a multi-country general equilibrium
model. We calibrate our model to represent one relatively small country and two ...
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Political reform and trade policy

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R Riezman… - Journal of International Economics, 1997 - Elsevier
The welfare effects of partial restrictions on political competition are investigated in a model
in which two candidates receive campaign contributions from import-competing industries in
return for tariff protection. Ceilings on allowable contributions per industry may be welfare- ...
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How reasonable are assumptions used in theoretical models? Computational evidence on the likelihood of trade pattern changes

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L Abrego, R Riezman… - Canadian Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In theoretical literature it is common to make the assumption that in a multi-country,
multi-good world, the direction of trade (import and export by commodity) is predetermined
and fixed for each good for each country. We consider a simple three-country, three-good, ...
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Optimal Education Policies and Comparative Advantage

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S Bougheas, R Kneller… - CESifo Working Paper …, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We consider the optimal education policies of a small economy whose government
has a limited budget. Initially, the economy is closed and the government chooses its
education policy to maximize welfare under autarky. Then the economy trades with the ...
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Production, trade, prices, exchange rates and equilibration in large experimental economies

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C Noussair, C Plott… - European Economic Review, 2007 - Elsevier
We study market equilibration in laboratory economies that are larger and more complex
than any that have been studied experimentally to date. Complexity is derived from the fact
that the economies are “international” in economic structure with multiple input, output, ...
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Trade agreements

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C Kowalczyk… - CESifo Working Paper Series No. …, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade
agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and
uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. ...
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How often are propositions on the effects of regional trade agreements theoretical curiosa?

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L Abrego, R Riezman… - Journal of International Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper uses computational techniques to assess whether or not various propositions
that have been advanced as plausible in the literature on regional trade agreements may
actually hold. The idea is to make probabilistic statements as to whether propositions of ...
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International trade and the negotiability of global climate change agreements

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Y Cai, R Riezman… - 2009 - nber.org
Country incentives to participate in cooperative arrangements which either fully or partially
internalize climate change externalities from carbon emissions involve critical asymmetries.
Small countries trade off own country costs of carbon mitigation actions against their own ...
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Embargoes and Supply Shocks in a Market with a Dominant Seller

SR Aiyagari, RG Riezman - Energy, foresight, and strategy, 1985 - books.google.com
Page 30. 2 Embargoes and Supply Shocks in a Market With a Dominant Seller S. Rao Aiyagari
and Raymond G. Riezman This chapter uses dynamic game theory and rational expectations
to analyze the nature and effects of supply shocks in oil markets. ...
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Computation and the theory of customs unions

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L Abrego, R Riezman… - CESifo Economic Studies, 2005 - CESifo Group
Abstract This paper reports on research that uses computational techniques to assess
whether or not various propositions that have been advanced as plausible in the literature
on the theory of customs unions actually hold. This research blends theory and numerical ...
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How often are propositions on the effects of customs unions theoretical curiosa and when should they guide policy?

L Abrego, R Riezman… - 2001 - nber.org
This paper uses computational techniques to assess whether or not various propositions
that have been advanced as plausible in the literature on Customs Unions (or other regional
trade agreements) may actually hold. The idea is to make probabilistic statements as to ...
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External Shocks and Economic Dynamics: The Case of African Countries

M Kose… - 1998 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: A number of African economies have highly concentrated export and import
sectors. Moreover, their export revenues are highly unstable due to recurrent and sharp
variations in the prices of main export goods. This paper examines the role of external ...
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[PDF] Production, Trade and Exchange Rates in Large Experimental Economies

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C Noussair, C Plott… - 2003 - econ.kuleuven.ac.be
Abstract We construct experimental economies for the purpose of studying market
equilibration in economies that are larger and more complex than any that have been
studied experimentally to date. Complexity is derived from the fact that the economies are ...
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Initial versus continuing proposal power in legislative seniority systems

R McKelvey… - Political Economy: Institutions, …, 1993 - books.google.com
In this chapter we compare two different systems of legislative seniority. In the first, senior
legislators are given disproportionate power to make initial proposals, but once the proposal
is brought before the legislative body the senior members lose their power. In the second ...
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The sources of protectionist drift in representative democracies

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D Laussel… - European Economic Review, 2005 - Elsevier
We analyze a two country–two good model of international trade in which citizens in each
country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by
the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a ...
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[CITATION] World business cycles

RG Riezman… - Working Papers, 1991 - ideas.repec.org
... A Time-Series Assessment of Export-Led Growth," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol.
21(1), pages 77-110. Other versions: Raymond Riezman & Charles Whiteman & Peter
M. Summers, 1996. "The Engine of Growth or Its Handmaiden? ...
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[CITATION] Worldwide persistence, business cycles, and economic growth

RG Riezman… - Working Papers, 1990 - ideas.repec.org
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[BOOK] How Often Are Propositions On The Effects Of Regional Trade Agreements Theoretical Curiosa And When Should They Guide Policy?

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L Abrego, RG Riezman, J Whalley… - 2002 - Citeseer
... Regional Trade Agreements Theoretical Curiosa And When Should They Guide Policy?¤ Lisandro
Abrego University of Warwick Raymond Riezman University of Iowa John Whalley Universities
of Warwick and Western Ontario and NBER May 28, 2002 Abstract ...
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[PDF] Distance Measures between Free Trade and Autarky for the World Economy

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R Riezman, J Whalley… - 2006 - faculty.washington.edu
Abstract We develop a methodology to determine numerically how globalized the world
economy is motivated by the recent use in popular magazines such as the Economist and
Foreign A airs of Measures of globalization for individual economies. We argue that such ...
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A theory of customs union: The three country-two good case

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R Riezman - Review of World Economics, 1979 - Springer
Zusammenfassung Eine Theorie der Zollunion: Der Drei-LÄnder-Zwei-Güter-Fall.—Der
Zweck dieser Arbeit besteht darin zu bestimmen, wann bei Ausschlu\ internationaler
Transferzahlungen zwei LÄnder ein Interesse daran haben, eine Zollunion zu bilden. Das ...
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Free trade: what are the terms-of-trade effects?

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C Kowalczyk… - Economic Theory, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Changes in trade policy affect a nation's economic welfare through terms-of-trade
and volume-of-trade effects. A move to global free trade would imply higher world economic
welfare equal to the sum of all nations' volume-of-trade, or efficiency, effects. Since the ...
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[CITATION] Summas and CH Whiteman (1996),“The Engine of Growth or its Handmaiden? A Time series Assessment of Exportled Growth”

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RG Riezman… - Empirical Economics
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[CITATION] Optimal dynamic tariff and subsidy policy with adjustment costs

J Horen… - The University of Iowa (mimeo), 1981
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[CITATION] Small countries and regionalism

AM Kose… - Department of Economics, University of Iowa, 1997
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Optimal Education Policies and Comparative Advantage

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S Bougheas, R Kneller… - Pacific Economic Review, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We consider the optimal education policies of a small economy whose government has a
limited budget. Initially, the economy is closed and the government chooses its education
policy to maximize welfare under autarky. When the economy trades with the rest of the ...
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[CITATION] Antoine Soubeyran, 2005. Fragmentation and Services

NV Long… - The North American Journal of Economics and Finance
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[BOOK] Trade, theory, and econometrics: essays in honour of John S. Chipman

JR Melvin, JC Moore, RG Riezman… - 1999 - books.google.com
Page 1. Trade, Theory and Econometrics Essays in honor of John S. Chipman Edited by James
R. Melvin, James C. Moore and Raymond Riezman Routledge Studies in the Modern World
Economy ... Raymond Riezman is Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa, USA. ...
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[CITATION] The Case for Convergence

RG Riezman, R Tamura… - … of the Business and Economic Statistics …, 1993
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[PDF] Fragmentation and Services

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N Van Long, R Riezman… - The North American …, 2004 - greqam.univ-mrs.fr
Abstract We develop a model that explores the link between services and fragmentation. In
our model components used in the manufacturing process are made with services and
labor. Low foreign wages create an incentive to outsource component production ( ...
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" Oligopoly and Customs Unions

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R Riezman - 1998 - books.google.com
In this chapter we analyze a model of international oligopoly when customs unions are
possible. We show that importer-exporter customs unions are pro-competitive in the sense
that internally they will tend to have industries produce at their competitive output level, but ...
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Fixed Transport Costs and International Trade

D Laussel… - 2008 - emeraldinsight.com
Abstract: We develop a simple two-country model of international trade that assumes that
there is a fixed cost of doing international trade. We show that this leads to multiple equilibria
that can be Pareto-ranked. We examine the stability properties of these equilibria.
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Globalization, Gender and Development: The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling

B Ural Marchand, R Rees… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the
relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We
estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child ...
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Pareto-improving trading clubs without income transfers

K Iwasa, R Riezman… - 2008 - emeraldinsight.com
Three decades have passed since Kemp and Wan (1976) published one of the most important
papers on customs union theory. The Kemp–Wan theorem states that starting from any initial
equilibrium, if inter-country transfers are allowed, there always exists a set of countries ...
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Trade and the Distribution of Human Capital

RG Riezman… - 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
TRADE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF HUMAN CAPITAL SPIROS BOUGHEAS RAYMOND
RIEZMAN CESIFO WORKING PAPER NO. 1475 ... Raymond Riezman University of Iowa Department
of Economics W360 PBB Iowa City, IA 52242 USA raymond-riezman@uiowa.edu ...
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[CITATION] The engines of growth in the APEC economies, 1950-1990

RG Riezman, PM Summers… - 1995 - Centre for International Economic …
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[PDF] Minorities and Storable Votes!

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ACT Palfrey… - 2006 - georgetown.edu
Abstract The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the
power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate effi ciency. Storable votes grant each voter
a stock of votes to spend as desired over a series of binary decisions. By accumulating ...
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[PDF] Human Capital

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S Bougheas… - 2005 - cesifo.de
Abstract We develop a two-country, two-sector model of trade where the only difference
between the two countries is their distribution of human capital endowments. We show that
even if the two countries have identical aggregate human capital endowments the pattern ...
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Optimal Educational Policies and Comparative Advantage

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R Riezman, R Kneller… - 2009 - dspace.cigilibrary.org
Abstract: We consider the optimal education policies of a small economy whose government
has a limited budget. Initially, the economy is closed and the government chooses its
education policy to maximize welfare under autarky. Then the economy trades with the ...
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Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady-State Analysis

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P Wang… - CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2222, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing
has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences. The
disadvantage is that producing in the host country also means using the inferior ...
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[CITATION] Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Memoriam, J. Trout Rader

T Rader, W Neuefeind… - 1992 - getcited.org
An academic directory and search engine.
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[PDF] Trade Liberalization and Specific Human Capital Accumulation

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N Van Long, R Riezman… - 1999 - karyiuwong.com
Abstract: We develop a new framework for the analysis of the impact of trade liberalization
on the wage structure. Our model focuses on the decision of workers to accumulate firm-
specific skills, knowing that this means their future wages will have to be negotiated, and ...
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DP5278 Minorities and Storable Votes

A Casella, TR Palfrey… - 2005 - cepr.org
The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of
minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of
votes to spend as desired over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues ...
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[CITATION] Front Matter Front Matter

JR Follain Jr, R Riezman, GH Sweeney… - Southern Economic …, 1982 - JSTOR
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Understanding the Welfare Implications of

M Kose… - 1998 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper examines various implications of Preferential Trade Agreements
(PTAs), namely Customs Unions (CUs) and Free Trade Areas (FTAs), in the context of a
multi-country general equilibrium model based on comparative advantage considerations. ...

Distance measures between free trade and autarky for the world economy

R Riezman, J Whalley… - Economic Modelling, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract We develop a methodology to determine numerically how globalized the world
economy is. We present a global general equilibrium model capturing major OECD
economies and a residual rest of world for which alternative metrics of distance between ...
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[PDF] Globalisation, Inequality and Well-Being

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L Abrego, R Riezman… - 2002 - cesifo.de
Abstract This paper uses computational techniques to assess whether or not various
propositions that have been advanced as plausible in the literature on regional trade
agreements may actually hold. The idea is to make probabilistic statements as to whether ...
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[BOOK] Globalization, Gender and Development: The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling

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BU Marchand, R Rees… - 2011 - cesifo-economic-studies.de
Abstract Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the
relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We
estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child ...
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A Oshima, B Ravikumar… - 2008 - econstor.eu
Zusammenfassung: We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in
the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to
the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human ...
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BU Marchand, R Rees… - 2011 - econstor.eu
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R Riezman… - 2012 - econ.ccu.edu.tw
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whose final good production employs an endogenous array of intermediate goods, from ...
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The principle of majority rule is the foundation of democratic constitutions, but provides an
immediate and fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of any government that the
constitution empowers: the risk of excluding minority groups from representation. At least ...
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E Bond, R Riezman… - 2010 - pingwang.wustl.edu
Abstract Along the global trend of economic development, it is often observed rapid
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S Alexander… - Review of World Economics, 1982 - Springer
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schooling rates of children in India using the variation in trade tariffs across a period of
liberalization. The results suggest that increases in maternal labor supply raise the ...
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