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Impoverished, but Numerate? Early Numeracy in East Asia (1550–1800) and its Impact on 20th and 21st Century Economic Growth
Baten, Jörg; Sohn, Kitae - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital …
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Trade in the Triad: How Easy is the Access to Large Markets?
Fontagne, Lionel; Mayer, Thierry; Zignago, Soledad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
called the Triad: The United States, the EU and Japan. We focus on measuring possible asymmetries in market access between …
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Productivity, Wages and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the US, Japan and Europe
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986
. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies … indices for Japan and Europe. If anything, real wages in Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the … sense that much of the increase in wage gap indices in Europe during 1968-70 and in Japan in 1973-74 can be interpreted as …
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Urban Accounting and Welfare
Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions through...
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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
in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by about 2.0%. This China effect entails a drop of 14% in producer …
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Bottled Water - A Case of Pointless Trade?
Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Two-way trade in (almost) homogenous products has ambiguous welfare effects if entry is restricted. We examine Swedish imports of bottled water to investigate whether transport cost losses from trade outweigh the partial equilibrium gains from trade (stronger competition and more brands to...
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The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity
Melitz, Marc J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper builds a dynamic industry model with heterogeneous firms that explains why international trade induces reallocations of resources among firms in an industry. The Paper shows how the exposure to trade will induce only the more productive firms to enter the export market (while some...
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Intra-Industry Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and the Reorientation of East European Exports
Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
In the first half of the 1990s many Central and East European countries (CEECs) experienced very high growth rates of exports to OECD nations. This paper investigates the contribution of sources of comparative advantage and economic restructuring on the pattern, composition and volume of trade....
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Outsourcing Versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which producers need specialized components. Potential suppliers must make a relationship-specific investment in order to serve each prospective customer. Such investments are governed by...
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International Trade in Identical Commodities: Cournot Equilibrium with Free Entry
Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
The paper analyses intra-industry trade between economies containing an imperfectly competitive industry in which firms produce a homogeneous output, production is subject to increasing returns to scale, and there is free entry and exit of firms. Trade is shown to unambiguously increase welfare...
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