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"Introduction and Overview" : Symposium on TRIPS and TRIMS in the Uruguay Round: Analytical and Negotiating Issues
(1990)
This is a collection of four study group papers, published as a symposium in The World Economy. The papers on TRIPs include one by Alan V. Deardorff and another by Arvind Subramanian (GATT Secretariat) which was specially ...
Growth and International Investment with Diverging Populations
(1990-10)
A two-country, neoclassical growth model is examined, in which the countries populations grow at different rates Individually modeled like the Solow one-sector growth model but with perfectly mobile capital between them. ...
How Open is Japan?: Comment
(1990-07)
Saxonhouse comments on a paper written by Robert Z. Lawrence.
Sequential Provision of Public Goods
(1990-01-17)
I consider the private provision of public goods when agents are able to make sequential contributions rather than simultaneous contributions. In the case of two agents with quasilinear utility, a quite complete analysis ...
On equalizing school expenditures
(Elsevier, 1990)
A conflict between efficiency and equity exists in the provision of public education. We examine this conflict and consider a compromise approach to school finance, "district power equalization" (DPE). DPE has never been ...
A Solution to the Problem of Externalities and Public Goods when Agents are Well-Informed
(1990-01-17)
I consider economic environments involving externalities and public goods where agents have full information but the regulator does not. For these environments I present a class of simple two-stage games whose subgame ...
Canada-U.S. Free Trade and Pressures for Tax Harmonization
(1990-06)
To what degree will the recent free-trade agreement create pressure on the U.S. and Canada to modify, and perhaps harmonize, their tax systems? What will be the implications of the more extensive policy changes now going ...