Essays on trade and equity [electronic resource] / (2005)
Proefschrift Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.
Essays on trade and equity (2005)
Proefschrift Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.
The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets
Joseph F. Francois, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extended by the UN has been both widely used and strongly criticized. The criticisms raise questions about conclusions drawn from...
Equity, welfare, and the setting of trade policy in general equilibrium
Francois, Joseph, Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo
The authors analyzegeneral equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and...
The construction and interpretation of combined cross-section and time-series inequality datasets
Francois, Joseph F., Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo
The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extended by the United Nations has been both widely used and strongly criticized. The criticisms raise questions about conclusions...
The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets
Francois, Joseph, Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo
The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extended by the UN has been both widely used and strongly criticized. The criticisms raise questions about conclusions drawn from...
Opening Services Markets within Europe: Modelling Foreign Establishments in a CGE Framework
Arjan Lejour, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, Gerard Verweij
In services, the activities of foreign affiliates often exceed the value of cross-border trade. A complete analysis of services liberalisation therefore requires the modelling of FDI. This paper...
Household Inequality, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy
Joseph Francois, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and...
Joseph Francois, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
We develop a dual approach to analyzing general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and household (as distinct from functional) income distribution, highlighting how general equilibrium...
The Construction and Interpretation of Combined Cross-Section and Time-Series Inequality Datasets
Joseph Francois, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extended by the UN has been both widely used and strongly criticized. The criticisms raise questions about conclusions drawn from...
Will Corporate Tax Consolidation improve Efficiency in the EU ?
Leon Bettendorf, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
The European Commission favours the introduction of a consolidated corporate tax base to overcome the distortions arising from the existing system of separate accounting. The blueprints for...
Economic Implications of an Association Agreement between the European Union and Central America
Luis Rivera, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
Using a global CGE model, we assess the potential macro-economic effects of a future European Union - Central American Association Agreement (EU-CAAA). Currently, many agricultural products from...
Household Inequality, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy
Joseph Francois, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and...
Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, Joseph, Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo
We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also...
Household Inequality, Welfare and the Setting of Trade Policy
Francois, Joseph, Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo
We analyse general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and...
Economic perspectives for Central America after CAFTA
Joseph F. Francois, Luis Rivera, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
Using a GTAP CGE application, we assess the main economic results of CAFTA for Central America (CA). Currently, Central America enjoys preferential access to the US market through the Caribbean Basin...
Foreign Direct Investment in Applied General Equilibrium Models
Arjan Lejour, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
Global applied general equilibrium (AGE) models focus on the interactions between regional product markets. Many of these models are developed to represent trade flows and evaluate trade policies....
Productivity Effects of FDI Inflows: A Literature Review
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows have increased substantially in the past two decades. These developments have motivated the appearance of a large number of empirical papers that test the...
Will corporate tax consolidation improve efficiency in the EU?
Leon Bettendorf, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
Consolidation of the tax base in the European Union is expected to curve compliance costs and reduce profit shifting. A number of proposals for consolidation from the European Commission are...
Wim Suyker, Piet Buitelaar, Jos Ebregt, Stefan Groot, Jan Möhlmann, ...
India’s impressive economic performance over the past few decades has had a positive net impact on the Dutch economy. Peculiar for India is its relatively strong position on the global markets for...
Opening services markets within Europe: Modelling foreign establishments in a CGE framework
Lejour, Arjan, Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo, Verweij, Gerard
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services is often more important to supply foreign markets than cross-border trade. A complete analysis of services liberalization therefore requires the modelling...
International spillovers of domestic reforms
Arjan Lejour, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
Using the CGE model WorldScan, we assess the benefits for the EU member states of jointly reaching four of the Lisbon targets (i.e. 70% employment, skills upgrades, increased R&D expenditures and...
Reassessing the relationship between inequality and development
Joseph F. Francois, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
We reassess the empirical relevance of the Kuznets Curve with a new inequality dataset. Using panel data estimations that account for the heterogeneity of inequality observations, we test for both...
Equity and International Trade
Joseph Francis Francois, Hugo ROJAS-ROMAGOSA
We develop a generalized approach to the treatment of household inequality aspects of social welfare in general equilibrium models of trade. We follow a dual approach, highlighting how general...
Does employment affect productivity?
Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, Leon Bettendorf
We investigate the trade-o¤ between employment and labour productivity in a panel of OECD countries in 1970-2003. The endogeneity of employment is shown to matter crucially for assessing its e¤ect...