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Price Responses of Rwandan Tungsten Exports under Conflict Minerals Regulation
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
Section 1502 of the Dodd--Frank Act, enacted in 2010, requires U.S.-listed companies using tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adj…
Optimal longevity of a dynasty
Satoshi Nakano, Kazuhiko Nishimura
Standard optimal growth models implicitly impose a ``perpetual existence'' constraint, which can ethically justify infinite misery in stagnant economies. This paper investigates th…
The Impact of Dodd-Frank and the Huawei Shock on DRC Tin Exports
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
This paper investigates the structural transformation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) tin market induced by the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act. Focusing on the breakdown of the…
How do we measure trade elasticity for services?
Satoshi Nakano, Kazuhiko Nishimura
This paper is about our attempt of identifying trade elasticities through the variations in the exchange rate, for possible applications to the case of services whose physical tran…