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Protectionism Isn’t Counter-Cyclic (anymore)

Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Conventional wisdom holds that protectionism is counter-cyclic; tariffs, quotas and the like grow during recessions. While that may have been a valid description of the data before the Second World War, it is no longer accurate. In the post-war era, protectionism has not actually moved...

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Do WTO Members have More Liberal Trade Policy?

Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper uses 67 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...

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Integration, Agglomeration and the Political Economics of Factor Mobility

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper tackles the issue of the optimality of agglomeration in a two-region economy with skilled/mobile and unskilled/immobile workers. The market leads to the optimal outcome when transport costs are high or low. However, for intermediate values, it yields agglomeration whereas dispersion...

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`1992': Trade and Welfare; A General Equilibrium Model

Gasiorek, Michael; Smith, Alasdair; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper investigates the consequences of the completion of the internal market in the EC using a computable general equilibrium model of trade under imperfect competition. The focus of the paper is the welfare consequences of reducing trade barriers and the changes in production and trade...

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Integration, Specialization and Adjustment

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

concentrated in a single location. Economic integration may induce specialization. The paper studies the simple dynamics of the … wages as relocation of industry occurs, although there are long-run gains from integration. …

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Culture: Persistence and Evolution

Giavazzi, Francesco; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper presents evidence on the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a wide range of values and beliefs of different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural attitudes. Some, for instance deep personal religious...

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Fixed-Mobile Integration

Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Often, fixed-line incumbents also own the largest mobile network. We consider the effect of this joint ownership on market outcomes. Our model predicts that while fixed-to-mobile call prices to the integrated mobile network are more efficient than under separation, those to rival mobile networks...

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A Price Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration (Revised Version)

Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

, technology, and welfare. Integration is pri- vately costly but is effective at coordinating production decisions; non-integration … is less costly, but coordinates relatively poorly. Output price influences the choice of ownership structure: integration … increases with the price level. At the same time, own- ership affects output, since integration is more productive than non-integration …

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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Abstract: This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive –...

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Citizenship and Employment – comparing two cool countries

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Over the last decades, both Canada and Sweden have liberalized citizenship regulations for permanent residents. During the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth have changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of...

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