This paper explores the implications of reductions in tariffs or transport costs on the rate of innovation in a quality ladders model where Þrms from both countries innovate. If a country raises its tariffs, its wage rises relative to the other country and its Þrms become technology leaders for a larger fraction of products, but the aggregate rate of innovation falls. If transport costs fall sy...

This paper addresses mobile service pricing and affordability issues in China. Taking history as a mirror, it shows individual tariffs existed at the dawn of telephony. A vision of future mobile services with individual tariffs is formalized which will suit specially well the culture of communities rooted in Chinese traditions. An analysis of current tariff conditions in China shows community-b...

Embodied carbon tariffs tax the direct and indirect carbon emissions embodied in trade — an idea popularized by countries seeking to extend the reach of domestic carbon regulations. We investigate their effectiveness using simulations from an applied general equilibrium model of global trade and energy use. We find that the tariffs do reduce foreign emissions, but their ability to improve the g...

Unilateral carbon policies are inefficient due to the fact that they generally involve emission reductions in countries with high marginal abatement costs and because they are subject to carbon leakage. In this paper, we ask whether the use of carbon tariffs — tariffs on the carbon embodied in imported goods — might lower the cost of achieving a given reduction in world emissions. Specifically,...

Since buildings account for more than one-third of final energy use, it is important to integrate renewable sources new housing developments reduce demand grid and carbon emissions. This research investigates the potential solar PV, storage, electric vehicles in their associated impacts by taking UK’s Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Oxford arc as a case study. Using published data on electrical loads...

Fifty-eight years ago, Harberger (1954) estimated that the costs of monopoly, which resulted from misallocation of resources across industries, were trivial. Others showed the same was true for tariffs. This research soon led to the consensus that monopoly costs are of little significance–a consensus that persists to this day. This paper reports on a new literature that takes a different approa...

Title of Document: ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INEQUALITY Lourenço Senne Paz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Nuno Limão Department of Economics In this dissertation I assess the impact of developing country trade liberalization on their wage inequality by focusing on two possible channels, namely job formality and inter-industry wage premium. Informal workers are a larg...

BACKGROUND Previous Canadian cost-effectiveness analyses in cancer based on the EQ-5D-3L (EuroQoL, Rotterdam, Netherlands) have commonly used U.K. or U.S. tariffs because the Canadian equivalent only just recently became available. The implications of using non-Canadian tariffs to inform decision-making are unclear. We aimed to reevaluate an earlier cost-effectiveness analysis of therapies for ...

There is an increasing trend globally to develop country-specific tariffs that can theoretically better reflect population's preferences on health states for preference-based health-related quality-of-life instruments, also known as multiattribute utility instruments. This study focused on the most recently developed 5-level version of EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D) questionnaire, 1 of the world's...