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Impact of European food safety border inspections on agri-food exports : evidence from Chinese firms
Beestermöller, Matthias; Disdier, Anne-Célia; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507231
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014669
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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-Emu Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015976
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The proposed India-EU Trade agreement and UNECE 1958 provisions: empirical results for Indian automobile sector
Chakraborty, Debashis; Nag, Biswajit; Bhardwaj, … - 2021
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Goods and Factor Market Integration : A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017
The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949423
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury
Doyle, Joseph J. - 2010
Young children are required to use child safety seats, and the age threshold at which children can legally graduate to seat belts has steadily increased. This paper tests the relative effectiveness of child safety seats, lap-and-shoulder seat belts, and lap belts in preventing injuries among...
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Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness
Levitt, Steven D.; Porter, Jack - 2021
Measurement of seat belt and air bag effectiveness is complicated by the fact that systematic data are collected only for crashes in which a fatality occurs. These data suffer from sample selection since seat belt and air bag usage influences survival rates which in turn determine whether a...
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Section 232 reloaded : the false promise of the transatlantic 'climate club' for steel and aluminium
Kleimann, David - 2023
In using the removal of Section 232 'national security' tariffs on steel and aluminium imports as a bargaining chip …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316266
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Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Castle Doctrine
Cheng, Cheng - 2012
From 2000 to 2010, more than 20 states passed laws that make it easier to use lethal force in self-defense. Elements of these laws include removing the duty to retreat in places outside of one's home, adding a presumption of reasonable belief of imminent harm, and removing civil liability for...
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The Paradox of Civilization : Pre-Institutional Sources of Security and Prosperity
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2015
that could protect surplus (“security”). But the joint achievement of security and prosperity had to escape a paradox … conflict when defense capability is fixed, but may allow for security and prosperity when defense capability is endogenous …. Some economic shocks and military innovations deliver security and prosperity while others force societies back into a trap …
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