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AI adoption, structural constraints and inclusive growth: Evidence from Greece

Bartzokas, Anthony; Kostis, Pantelis C. - 2026

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Privacy by design for public digital money

Summer, Martin - 2026

As central banks explore issuing digital currencies for public use, a critical design challenge is how to protect the privacy of the granular data trails digital payments leave behind. While privacy is widely recognised as a goal, policy debates often frame it as a trade-off with crime...

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The trade elasticity from tariffbased regressions : what do we measure?

Tamberi, Nicolò - 2026

Most empirical estimates of the trade elasticity exploit tariff variation generated by Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Because firms only partly utilize preferential tariffs, standard regressions identify an eligible-tariff elasticity rather than the structural elasticity with respect to...

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The elasticity of imports to MFN tariffs

Tamberi, Nicolò - 2026

When the UK left the EU, it introduced a new import tariff schedule, one of the largest MFN tariff reforms in decades of a developed economy. This paper exploits this policy change to estimate the elasticity of imports to MFN tariffs, addressing the endogeneity of trade policy through two...

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Identifying spatial regimes of economic fragility through spatially constrained clustering : evidence from Italian municipalities

Chiodin, Alessio; Manera, Matteo; Maranzano, Paolo; … - 2026

The COVID-19 pandemic generated highly heterogeneous economic effects across territories, reflecting differences in local production structures and spatial organization. This paper examines the geography of short-run economic fragility during the first wave of the pandemic by identifying...

Persistent link: https://econbiz.de/10015617953

Monopolistic competition under horizontal and vertical differentiation

Kichko, Sergei; Marini, Marco; Saulle, Riccardo D.; … - 2026

This paper extends the CES model of monopolistic competition to the case where varieties are both horizontally and vertically differentiated. A distinctive feature of our model is the presence of a network externality, which operates through the number of varieties available at each quality...

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