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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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Economic Nationalism and Economic Integration: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century
Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - CESifo - 2009
This paper seeks to reconcile two seemingly contradictory strands in the literature on economic development in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other stressing significant improvements in market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572582
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Trade with Endogenous Transportation Costs: The Value of LNG Exports
Oglend, Atle; Osmundsen, Petter; Kleppe, Tore Selland - CESifo - 2015
-market price spreads. This is relevant for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. LNG transportation capacity is limited in the short …-run, and long lead-times are involved in extending the transportation infrastructure. We establish empirically that LNG … capture part of the price spread. We proceed to develop a method to value LNG exports under conditions of endogenous …
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On the many Ways Europeanization Matters: The Implementation of the Water Reform in Italy (1994-2006)
Asquer, Alberto - CESifo - 2009
The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572548
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A Fair Price for Energy? Ownership versus Market Opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - CESifo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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Do Firms Sell Forward for Strategic Reasons? An Application to the Wholesale Market for Natural Gas
Eijkel, Remco van; Gonzalez, José Luis Moraga - CESifo - 2010
Building on a model of the interaction of risk-averse firms that compete in forward and spot markets, we develop an empirical strategy to test whether oligopolistic firms use forward contracts for strategic motives, for risk-hedging, or for both. An increase in the number of players weakens the...
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this paper, we show that this trade-promoting effect of language...
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Foreign Languages and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko - CESifo - 2014
Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries....
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Tariff Liberalization and Trade Integration of Emerging Countries
Disdier, Anne-Célia; Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; … - CESifo - 2013
We investigate how tariff liberalization has affected exporting in emerging countries. We use a highly disaggregated bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs applied in 1996 and 2006, which includes the timing of the Uruguay Round and episodes of bilateral liberalization. Our...
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Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm Level Evidence
Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Orefice, Gianluca; … - CESifo - 2013
We address the trade effect of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade, by matching a detailed panel of French firm exports with a new database compiling the list of Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary regulatory measures that have been raised as a concern in dedicated committees of the...
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