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On the Political Economy of High Skilled Migration and International Trade

Bougheas, Spiros; Nelson, Douglas R. - CESifo - 2012

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...

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Unionized Oligopoly, Trade Liberalization and Location Choice

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Sørgard, Lars - CESifo - 2002

In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce FDI, which is at odds with conventional theoretical wisdom and cannot happen in a...

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Was Germany ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade 1885 - 1933

Wolf, Nikolaus - CESifo - 2008

When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885 – 1933, I explore the geography of trade costs across Central Europe....

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Labor Market Effects of Economic Integration - The Impact of Re-Unification in German Border Regions

Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - CESifo - 2004

The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...

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Unlocking the Value of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2008

Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...

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Globalisation and the Mix of Wage and Profit Taxes

Haufler, Andreas; Klemm, Alexander; Schjelderup, Guttorm - CESifo - 2006

This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, our model predicts that countries reduce their corporate tax rate, relative to the wage tax, either when...

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Fueling Growth when Oil Peaks: Directed Technological Change and the Limits to Efficiency

André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012

While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource … scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous … growth model that reconciles the current aggregate trends in energy use and productivity growth with the intertemporal …

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Turkish Delight for Some, Cold Turkey for Others?: The Effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2005

Following Turkey’s application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly covering trade in manufacturing goods and processed agricultural products, came into effect in 1995. In addition to a large agricultural sector, Turkey also specializes in the...

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International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - CESifo - 2009

This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...

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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union

Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

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