US Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China: What is at Stake? - A Global CGE Analysis

An Analysis of International Outsourcing in Iran-China Trade Relations

Iran-China relations are deeply rooted in history and have been enhanced recently with bilateral cooperation in the areas of energy, arms sales, trade, political cooperation and cultural ties. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of international outsourcing in form of trading intermediate products on bilateral trade relations between Iran and China. As an empirical work, we h...

Food security in China at 2050: a global CGE exercise

What is at stake in the debate on value

New Lanark is one of the big tourist attractions in the south of Scotland. Designated a world heritage site by the UN it is an almost perfectly preserved model industrial village run by Robert Owen two hundred years ago. It has a large and elegant school building, an ’Institute for the Formation of Character’, workers houses and the original mills. An exhibition and theme ride puts accross some...

What Is at Stake in the Debate on Nonconceptual Content?

It is now 25 years since Gareth Evans introduced the distinction between conceptual and nonconceptual content in The Varieties of Reference. This is a fitting time to take stock of what has become a complex and extended debate both within philosophy and at the interface between philosophy and psychology. Unfortunately, the debate has become increasingly murky as it has become increasingly ramif...

What Is at Stake When Determining Lifetime Asset Allocation?**

This paper examines the effects of deviating from the optimal life-cycle asset allocation. The magnitude of likely deviations is gauged through an analysis of differences between available life-cycle funds. The motivation is that due to search costs, the complexity of the decision problem and other factors, an investor may choose a fund with asset allocation profile A even though profile B woul...