One of the most important policies concerning the adjustment of foreign trade is to allocate foreign currency by establishing an exchange control system. The mechanism of this would be so that the Central Bank operates or supervises all transactions concerning foreign exchange. However, the controlling system, like all other international systems of payment, operates with some adjustments and i...

Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in politics and business across the globe. In many countries, policy-makers have responded by introducing gender quotas in politics and increasingly, many have expressed an interest in requiring gender quotas for corporate boards. This paper reviews the evidence on the eq...

Abstract Russia’s food policy has been defined by the quest for security more than a decade, which in Russian context includes import protectionism, self-sufficiency, and substitution, marked adoption of Food Security Doctrines 2010 2020. This chapter first investigates impact on domestic production. combined with an increase state support production, leading to notable increases output self-su...

East Java Province is one of the leading national chili producers. But, still imports chilies to meet fluctuating demand and prices. The variables imports, production, consumption, pricing, currency rates were employed in this study ranged from 2019 2021. This aims forecast volume for next year (12 months) analyze factors that influence determine most dominant influencing factors. method used (...

This paper investigates the e¤ect of applying gender quotas on policy decisions. I …rst examine the e¤ect of gender quotas on the representation of female legislators, study the correlation between gender quotas and di¤erent types of government expenditures, and then use quotas as an instrument for the proportion of female legislators to investigate the e¤ect of female legislators on policy out...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper examines the effects of conversion of one type of physical trade restrictions into another on the intra-country wage inequality in a standard 2 × 2 × 2 Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson model. It shows that a conversion of an import-quota into an equivalent voluntary export restraint raises wage-inequality in the country importing the unskilled-labor intensive good and ...

Two correlational studies conducted in Switzerland ( N = 222) and Albania ( N = 156) explained the opposition of female managers to gender quotas by examining the origins and consequences of the "Queen Bee (QB)-phenomenon," whereby women who have been successful in male-dominated organizations do not support the advancement of junior women. Results disconfirm previous accounts of the QB-phenome...

We compare taxes and quotas where a regulator and a non-strategic firm have asymmetric information about a pollution-producing activity. In previous studies, optimal quotas are generally assumed to bind with probability one. We analyze the conditions under which a quota that binds with probability less than one is optimal. A quota that may be slack can be targeted towards some firms whilst allo...