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Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry; Thoenig, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

destruction due to civil wars is very large and persistent and increases with the severity of the conflict. We then test the …

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War and Relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. …

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Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

Glick, Reuven; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of …

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The Economic Geography of Trade Production and Income: A Survey of Empirics

Overman, Henry G; Redding, Stephen J.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper surveys the empirical literature on the economic geography of trade flows, factor prices, and the location of production. The discussion is structured around the empirical predictions of a canonical theoretical model. We review empirical evidence on the determinants of trade costs and...

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Free Trade and Long-Run Growth

Ben-David, Dan; Loewy, Michael B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

What is the impact of movement towards free trade on output? Can this impact permanently affect output levels, and more importantly, will it have an impact on steady-state growth rates? This paper provides empirical evidence showing how countries have exhibited substantial increases in their...

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Global View of Economic Growth

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

This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical models that share a common description of technology and preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade...

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Equilibrium Locations of Vertically Linked Industries

Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper considers the locational choice of firms in an upstream and a downstream industry. Both industries are imperfectly competitive, with firms subject to increasing returns. There are transport costs between the two locations. Depending on the level of these costs there may be a single...

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Firms in International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...

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A Balls-and-Bins Model of Trade

Armenter, Roc; Koren, Miklós - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

A number of stylized facts have been documented about the extensive margin of trade - which firms export, and how many products they send to how many destinations. We argue that the sparse nature of trade data is crucial to understanding these stylized facts. Typically the number of observations...

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The Distance Effect and the Regionalization of the Trade of Low-Income Countries

Carrère, Céline; de Melo, Jaime; Wilson, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The “distance effect” measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been to be rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on the gravity model, leading observers to call it the “distance puzzle”. We review the evidence and explanations. Using an extensive data set...

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