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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-12)This paper studies the welfare losses from tariff protection in a general model of a small open economy where some factors are internationally mobile. It is show that, as long as the economy remains incompletely specialised, ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1998-07-21)We characterize optimal trade and industrial policy in dynamic oligopolistic markets. If governments can commit to future policies, optimal first-period intervention should diverge from the profit-shifting benchmark to an ...
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(University College Dublin. School Of Economics, 2000-04)This paper analyses the potential of discriminatory EU enlargement to influence these trade flows. In particular, we present evidence to suggest that enlargement to include some, but not all, of the CEEC's may have a greater ...
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The economies of Eastern Europe, the European Union's frontier : incorporation of regime competition (University College Dublin, Department of Economics, 1997-01)In this paper we look at one aspect of the growth trade relations as between the EU and the CEEC states, which reflects the pattern of trade. We argue that there is some evidence to support the proposition that a facet of ...
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(University Collge Dublin. School Of Economics, 2001-05)This paper uses the introduction of an exchange rate between Ireland and the UK in 1979 as a natural experiment to shed light on the effects of a common currency on the volume of international trade. No evidence is found ...
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(University College Dublin. Department of Economics, 1998-03)This paper focuses on the appropriate measurement of intra-industry trade as indicator of structural adjustment costs. Vertical intra-industry trade is distinguished from horizontal trade on the basis of industrial ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-11)The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export status for a large panel of Irish manufacturing firms. Two-way traders and exporters-only are found to be ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-06-05)I briefly review the empirical evidence in the trade and wages debate, which overwhelmingly rejects the Heckscher-Ohlin explanation for recent increases in OECD skill premia. I then argue that the same evidence is also ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-10)Following a brief historical introduction and a discussion of different types of commercial policy, this paper reviews the arguments for and against trade protection. In the bench-mark case of a competitive, small, open ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-12-11)Almost twenty-five years after the appearance of Dixit and Stiglitz’s paper on monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity, I try to take stock of the progres which has been made in applying their approach to ...