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Economic Staff Paper Series
GATT Research Papers
Working Papers
Economic Staff Paper Series
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Trade Policy And Time Consistency In An Oligopsonistic World Market
Economic Staff Paper Series (1998)
Jean-Philippe Gervais and HARVEY E LAPAN
This paper investigates the strategic behavior between countries that have purchasing power on the world market for a certain good. ...
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Intellectual Property Rights and the Welfare Effects of Agricultural R&D
Economic Staff Paper Series (1997)
GianCarlo Moschini and HARVEY E LAPAN
The profound changes that have affected the agricultural sector of developed countries in modern times are perhaps best illustrated by ...
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Monopoly Power in Domestic Production, Smuggling, and the Non-Equivalence Between ...
Economic Staff Paper Series (1995)
Harvey E. Lapan and Bruno Larue
During the last thirty years, one of the most popular research topics in international trade has been the non-equivalence among ...
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The Generalized H-O Model with Different Natural Resource Intensities
Economic Staff Paper Series (1995)
Edward Osei and HARVEY E LAPAN
The incorporation of natural resources into trade models offers a significant advancement in the understanding of trade patterns. Before the ...
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Dynamic Duopoly Theory and Rational Expectations
Economic Staff Paper Series (1982)
Harvey E. Lapan
The determination of equilibrium prices and quantities in an oligopolistic market has been a troublesome problem for economic theory# The ...
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The Exchange Regime, Resource Allocation, And Uncertainty
Economic Staff Paper Series (1981)
Walter Enders and Harvey E. Lapan
The role of nontraded goods has received considerable attention from economists attempting to assess the relative merits of fixed versus ...
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An Overlapping Generational Model With Capital Accumulation in a Small ...
Economic Staff Paper Series (1981)
Walter Enders and Harvey E. Lapan
In this paper we develop a portfolio balance model which can be used to make an equitable comparison of alternative ...
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Social Security Taxation When Benefits are Tied to Contributions
Economic Staff Paper Series (1981)
Walter Enders and Harvey E. Lapan
There is a substantial body of literature addressing the issue of optimal Social Security taxation. The most common theme in ...
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Social Security Taxation and Intergenerational Risk Sharing
Economic Staff Paper Series (1979)
Walter Enders and Harvey E. Lapan
The life cycle hypothesis has become the dominant mode used to analyze the effects of a social security system on ...
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Stability, Random Disturbances, and the Exchange Rate Regime
Economic Staff Paper Series (1979)
Walter Enders and Harvey E. Lapan
Economists have long debated the relative merits of fixed versus flexible exchange rate systems. One of the major issues in ...
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Rational Expectations, Uncertainty and Exchange Rate Determination
Economic Staff Paper Series (1979)
Harvey E. Lapan and Walter Enders
The theory of exchange rate determination has evolved considerably in recent years. Starting from a supposition that exchange rates were ...
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Stochastic Disturbances, Nontraded Goods And The Choice Of The Exchange ...
Economic Staff Paper Series (1979)
Harvey E. Lapan and Walter Enders
Past research has argued that, in the presence of disturbances, the choice of an exchange regime depend,s upon: i) the ...
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The Assignment Problem and the Speed of Adjustment
Economic Staff Paper Series (1979)
Walter Enders and Harvey E. Lapan
Mundell [20] demonstrated that in order to achieve balance of payments equilibrium and full employment, monetary policy should be paired ...
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International Trade, Factor Market Distortions And The Optimal Dynamic Subsidy
Economic Staff Paper Series (1976)
Harvey E. Lapan
International trade theorists have long favored free trade, arguing that the only proper basis for a tariff is in response ...
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Endogenous Labor Supply, Rigid Factor Prices And A Second Best ...
Economic Staff Paper Series (1975)
Harvey E. Lapan
The conventional wisdom asserts that distortions due to factor price rigidities should be eliminated by subsidies. However, we argue that ...
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GATT Research Papers
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Price Stabilization Policies and Futures Markets
GATT Research Papers (1992)
Harvey E. Lapan and GianCarlo Moschini
Because of the short-term nature of existing futures contracts, farmers are subject to intertemporal income uncertainty, yet price stabilization may ...
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Optimal Trade Policies for a Developing Country under Uncertainty
GATT Research Papers (1991)
Eun Kwan Choi and Harvey E. Lapan
This paper investigates optimal trade policies for a developing, small open economy that faces international price uncertainly. Trade taxes are ...
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Working Papers
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Can trade be good for the environment?
Economics Working Papers (2002–2016) (2014)
Harvey E. Lapan and Shiva Sikdar
We analyze the impact of trade in a differentiated good on environmental policy when there is local and transboundary pollution. ...
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Are exporters more environmentally friendly than non-exporters? Theory and evidence
Economics Working Papers (2002–2016) (2012)
Jingbo Cui, Harvey E. Lapan and GianCarlo Moschini
This paper studies the firm-level relationship between decision to export and environmental performance. To guide the empirical work, we introduce ...
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Welfare impacts of alternative biofuel and energy policies
Economics Working Papers (2002–2016) (2010)
Jingbo Cui, Harvey E. Lapan, GianCarlo Moschini and Joseph Cooper
We employ an open economy general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of government energy policy, with an emphasis on ...
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Carbon leakage: the role of sequential policy setting
Economics Working Papers (2002–2016) (2010)
Shiva Sikdar and Harvey E. Lapan
We analyze non-cooperative environmental policy when the only strategic interaction between countries is through bilateral transboundary pollution, i.e., countries are ...
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Unit vs. ad valorem taxes in multi-product Cournot oligopoly
Economics Working Papers (2002–2016) (2009)
Harvey E. Lapan and David A. Hennessy
The welfare dominance of ad valorem taxes over unit taxes in a single-market Cournot oligopoly is well-known. This article extends ...
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Biofuels policies and welfare: is the stick of mandates better ...
Economics Working Papers (2002–2016) (2009)
Harvey E. Lapan and GianCarlo Moschini
Significant government support for biofuels has led to rapid growth in U.S. ethanol production and research to develop more advanced ...
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Buying Ecological Services: Nature's Harmonies, Fragmented Reserves and the ...
CARD Working Papers (2008)
David A. Hennessy and Harvey E. Lapan
Growing demand for cropland products has placed intense pressure on the ability of land resources to support nature, straining public ...
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Strategic environmental policy under free trade with transboundary pollution
Economics Working Papers (2002–2016) (2007)
Shiva Sikdar and Harvey E. Lapan
We analyze the effects of free trade on environmental policies in a strategic setting with transboundary pollution. Trade liberalization can ...
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