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- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
of jobs that Americans would aspire to, if only they knew where scarcity existed, what the qualifications were for those jobs, and where to go to acquire the right credentials. Tariffs or flimsy labor standards agreements will do nothing...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
region. Results here contradict these beliefs. This paper demonstrates that carbon leakage can arise despite a carbon tariff, but, when it does arise under a carbon tariff, it decreases emissions. Due in part to this clean leakage, results here indicate that a carbon...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
these beliefs. This paper demonstrates that carbon leakage can arise despite a carbon tariff but, when it does, it decreases emissions in practical settings. Due in part to this clean leakage, imposing a carbon View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
from molds. It was also dependent on tariffs and benefited from disruptions caused by European wars: The first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. By the 1940s, Westmoreland had moved away from high-quality, hand-decorated,...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bankers’ preferred conditions exist there. Revenues are sketchy, exchange rate risk is real, political uncertainties abound, and expertise is thin. Yet projects get funded and built. Capital lessons What can be learned? First, direct View Details
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
anger and blame stage. They are moving out of denial, but the corporate response emphasizes stopping "them" rather than innovating. Case in point: The U.S. auto industry. When threatened by superior Japanese imports, domestic automakers at first sought...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
what some perceive to be a narrowing between the rewards and risks of such ventures? Whether because of reduced market expectations or increased transactional costs resulting from deteriorating international relations, tighter regulation and security restrictions, the...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
had then been its peak, looking at the range of tariffs that killed that first great bout of globalization. I do think globalization will be fundamentally shifted and stalled by this pandemic, and we’re seeing it already. Global travel, a...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
only a recent phenomenon. For most of American history, companies in the domestic economy either were protected by tariff laws or were so much stronger than non-U.S. firms that they could act pretty much as they pleased. During the...
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Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets. Following a reduction in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
mobile market in the world, with the lowest tariffs globally, a model that has been adopted elsewhere internationally, Mittal notes. Looking ahead, by diversifying into emerging business areas in India’s booming economy, Bharti’s goal is...
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- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
foreign markets. Following a reduction in tariffs on trade between the two foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
treaties, tariff policies, and regional trade agreements that can be put in place to enhance the effectiveness of CSR and a country's long-term competitiveness. When international quotas on textiles and garments are eliminated at the end...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
depend on the ability of its independent regulators to provide for a level playing field between the government and private sector in areas such as insurance, civil aviation, telecom, and energy. Privatizations, tariff reform, an end to...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
reduced margins and increased risks that come with entering a number of domains that already have established incumbents, and the trade-offs between maximizing shareholder return (for example through investments in full tariff power...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
tariff, but doing so implies that they adopt cleaner technology. Therefore, carbon leakage can arise under a carbon tariff but, under mild conditions, it decreases global emissions. Due in part to this clean leakage, imposing a carbon...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
higher tariffs should lead to higher prices and therefore to more integration. We construct firm-level indices of vertical integration for a large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
private benefits. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to test this proposition: higher tariffs should lead to more vertical integration; moreover, ownership structures should be more alike across countries with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level....
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
competitiveness of her exports and the costs of her imported inputs. In a microeconomic sense, the business person also cares about tariffs (which affect trade), industrial policies, tax policies (on business directly, but also policies...
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by Sean Silverthorne