Author: Roberto BonfattiPublisher:
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Category : Academic theses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Three Essays on International Trade, Foreign Influence, and Institutions
Author: Roberto BonfattiThree Essays on International Trade and Economic Development
Author: Li ZhouPublisher:
ISBN: 9781124032795
Category : Consumption (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This dissertation is composed of three self-contained chapters on international trade and economic development, with a special focus on the involvement of the government or public-funded sectors. The first chapter investigates international trade of higher education, specifically its impact on native students and native workers in the exporting country. Theoretically, I show that, in a general equilibrium model with non-profit publicly-subsidized higher education providers (HEPs) that care about both education quality and the enrollment of native students, serving foreign students may improve natives' access to higher education, which eventually benefits all native workers. Empirically, I find that, during the period 2001 to 2007, the enrollment of one more foreign student in an Australian university leads to the enrollment of around 0.75 more native students in this university. The impact is identified using an instrumental variable, generated from the interaction between demand for Australian higher education from different countries during the sample period and student networks these countries had in different Australian HEPs during 1989 to 1994. The second chapter studies commercial development in the presence of economic agglomeration of commercial goods and services, a result of consumers' love of varieties and transportation costs associated with commercial consumption. I show that a low-income community may be under-served with commercial goods and services because a developer cannot capture all the profits of a commercial project. A block grant to a developer can solve the market failure and generate a total profit bigger than the grant. Employment tax abatements alone are much less effective and much more costly. The third chapter examines the long-run impact of trade in higher education. In an overlapping generation (OG) model with a higher education sector composed of non-profit research institutions and for-profit teaching institutions, I show that importing teaching services benefits low-ability individuals by increased number of research workers in production, and that it may also benefit high-ability individuals by providing better training to skilled workers to complement research workers.
Essays in International Trade and Public Economics
Author: Margarita M. KalamovaPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783631621394
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They deal with the relationship between the structure and quality of the public sector and the process of economic integration. Two of the essays add to the empirical determinants of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) and to the numerous applications of the theory of government decentralization. Decentralization tends to discourage inward FDI and domestic trade and to increase imports and exports. A third essay focuses on the effect of governments' intangible assets - such as consumer perceptions about countries and products from these countries - on FDI. A country's nation brand is shown to have a significant and large positive effect on investment flows.
Three Essays in International Trade and Uncertainty
Author: Richard Edward BaldwinPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Three Essays on International Trade Policy and Political Economy
Author: Inderjit KohliThree Essays on International Trade
Author: Vivek Harsha DehejiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Three Essays on International Trade
Author: Chrysostomos TabakisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Author: Woori Lee
Author: Puman Ouyang
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