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Topography, borders, and trade across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Fidrmuc, Jarko; Rindler, Michael - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 51 (2023) 3, pp. 816-832
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469173
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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income: A new panel IV approach
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin - In: European Economic Review 58 (2013) C, pp. 18-30
with a modified gravity framework in which we interact foreign natural disasters with geography. Predicting the exogenous … openness of a country. Controlling for constant determinants of income (history, geography) by means of fixed effects, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048553
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Foreign Languages and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791825
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Regional capital mobility in China: Economic reform with limited financial integration
Lai, Jennifer T.; McNelis, Paul D.; Yan, Isabel K.M. - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 37 (2013) C, pp. 493-503
This paper assesses the changes in the regional capital mobility in China during the period of economic reform in 1978–2008 by employing a panel time varying coefficient (TVP) model. This approach is much more suitable to model China's evolution in the regional capital mobility than a standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709331
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Economic fluctuations and political self-placement
Economou, Athina; Gavroglou, Stavros; Kollias, Christos - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 46 (2013) C, pp. 57-65
This paper examines whether economic conditions affect citizens’ political self-placement on the left–right scale of the political spectrum. A cohort of factors influence and determine such self-placements by citizens including ideology, social values, partisan allegiances, class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010703117
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Are all trade agreements equal? : the role of distance in shaping the effect of economic integration agreements on trade flows
Freeman, Rebecca; Pienknagura, Samuel - In: Review of world economics 155 (2019) 2, pp. 257-285
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Geography, Trade and Currency Union
Melitz, Jacques - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper reports on four basic results of tests of the standard gravity equation. First, geography can serve to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656466
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Dots to Boxes: Do the Size and Shape of Spatial Units Jeopardize Economic Geography Estimations?
Briant, Anthony; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper evaluates, in the context of economic geography estimates, the magnitude of the distortions arising from the … geography exercises (the analysis of spatial concentration, agglomeration economies, and trade determinants), using various …
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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which yield a gravity equation for commuting flows. To structurally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083978
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European Economic Integration, WTO Membership, Immigration and Offshoring
Kohler, Wilhelm - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
This volume is a collection of papers that apply general equilibrium theory in order to obtain policy relevant insights on topical issues of international trade and migration. The first set of papers focuses on European integration, applying dynamic numerical general equilibrium methods to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011010990