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The arrival of cheap goods: Measuring the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic prices

Auer, Raphael; Fischer, Andreas M; Kropf, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

What is the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic producer prices? In a panel covering 23 (2 digit) NACE manufacturing sectors from 1995 to 2008, instrumental variable estimations predict that when Chinese imports capture a 1% increase in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by...

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The Political Economy of Education and Development in an Open Economy

Bourguignon, François; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

If the price effect of opening up a developing economy may be expected to act as a disincentive for investment in human capital, the opposite is likely to be true of the income effect, especially in the presence of credit market imperfections among the poor. It is shown in this Paper that this...

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How to Save Globalization from its Cheerleaders

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The new conventional wisdom on globalization emphasizes that reaping the benefits of trade and financial integration is … continue to pose an important constraint on the world economy. In reality, lack of openness is no longer the binding constraint … alike. An alternative approach to globalization would focus on enhancing policy space rather than market access, and on …

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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population

Epstein, Gil S; Kunze, Astrid; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiraling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm-level data...

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The Impact of Globalization on the Equity Cost of Capital

Hardouvelis, Gikas A; Malliaropoulos, Dimitrios; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

equity changes as globalization takes place. This is because the launch of the single currency has led to the elimination of … among EU investors. We focus not only on the impact of globalization on the level of the cost of equity, but also on the …

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Global View of Economic Growth

Ventura, Jaume - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

, it is possible to identify a variety of channels through which trade affects the evolution of world income and its …

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Ownership, Capital or Outsourcing: What Drives German Investment to Eastern Europe?

Lorentowicz, Andzelika; Marin, Dalia; Raubold, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The Paper takes a first look at the host and home country effects of German foreign direct investment (FDI) in Eastern Europe based on new survey data of 1050 investment projects in Eastern Europe by 420 German multinationals during the 1990s. We find that German investors transfer a substantial...

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Globalization in History: A Geographical Perspective

Crafts, Nicholas; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

the context of globalization. Central to this view is the role of agglomeration in productivity performance; size and …

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Competition, Globalization and the Decline of Inflation

Chen, Natalie; Imbs, Jean; Scott, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and markups. Using disaggregated data for EU manufacturing over the period 1988-2000 we find increased openness exerts a negative and significant impact on sectoral prices. Increased...

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Innovation and Competitive Pressure

Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

I analyse the effects of competition on R&D effort (in a non-tournament context) and obtain robust results that hold for a variety of market structures, including markets with and without barriers to entry and markets characterized by either price or quantity competition. The approach...

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