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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...

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Finance, labour, capital, and international integration

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2016

Labour incomes depend on structural as well as politico-economic factors, because labour market policies partially remedy the financial market imperfections that make labour income shocks difficult to insure, and have different implications for labour and capital income. This paper illustrates...

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Wedges : distribution, distortions, and market integration

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2017 - First draft March 2017. This draft August 2017

This paper proposes a stylized model of policy determination and imperfect international integration. A country-specific policy wedge corrects labor market imperfections and/or redistributes welfare across differently wealthy agents. Capital market integration with the rest of the world, indexed...

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Target loans, current account balances and capital flows : the ECB's rescue facility

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2011

March 2011. They measure the additional central bank money that their corresponding National Central Banks (NCBs) have … additional central bank money that flowed to the euro core countries, Germany in particular, and crowded out the central bank …

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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …

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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program ; conference paper

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …

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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we...

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Kyoto and carbon leakage : an empirical analysis of the carbon content of bilateral trade

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2011

Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...

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European unemployment revisited : shocks, institutions, integration

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2016

This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and institutions, and runs it on recent data featuring dramatic shocks and controversial institutional change. Theoretical insights and empirical results suggest that reforms and...

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Systemic risk in banking, fire sales, and macroeconomic disasters

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Harvey, David I.; Kirman, Alan P.; … - 2024

market is endogenously formed. Bank assets are hit by idiosyncratic shocks drawn from a thin tailed distribution. The uneven … to be heavily indebted to other banks, their liquidation can trigger other bank failures. We find that the distribution …

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