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One Kind of Lawlessness: Estimating the Welfare Cost of Somali Piracy

Besley, Tim; Fetzer, Thiemo; Mueller, Hannes - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of piracy attacks on shipping costs using a unique data set on shipping contracts in the dry bulk market. We look at shipping routes whose shortest path exposes them to piracy attacks and find that the increase in attacks in 2008 lead to around a ten percent...

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The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development

Pascali, Luigi - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

The 1870-1913 period marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization. How did this tremendous increase in trade affect economic development? This work isolates a causality channel by exploiting the fact that the steamship produced an asymmetric change in trade distances among countries....

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Productivity, Quality, and Export Intensities

Crinò, Rosario; Epifani, Paolo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We study how firm and foreign market characteristics affect the geographic distribution of exporterssales. To this purpose, we use export intensities (the ratio of exports to sales) across destinations as our key measures of firmsrelative involvement in heterogeneous foreign markets. In a...

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Employment Effects of Service Offshoring: Evidence from Matched Firms

Crinò, Rosario - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

This paper studies the effects of service offshoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a … rich data set of Italian firms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service offshoring has no …

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Service Offshoring and White-Collar Employment

Crinò, Rosario - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

This paper empirically studies the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using data for more than … with respect to service offshoring for each occupation. Estimation is performed with Quasi-Maximum Likelihood, to account … skill level and the degree of tradability of the occupations. Results show that service offshoring increases high skilled …

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On Globalization and the Growth of Governments

Epifani, Paolo; Gancia, Gino - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between trade openness and the size of government, both theoretically and empirically. We show that openness can increase the size of governments through two channels: (1) a terms of trade externality, whereby trade lowers the domestic cost of taxation...

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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more...

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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …-abundant West to a skill-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress …. offshoring induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial level of offshoring is low, an increase in …

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