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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries

Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - CESifo - 2008

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow … off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …

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A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on European Agriculture

Passel, Steven Van; Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - CESifo - 2014

This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...

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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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Tax Base Erosion and Inequity from Michigan's Assessment Growth Limit: The Case of Detroit

Hodge, Timothy R.; Skidmore, Mark; Sands, Gary; … - CESifo - 2013

In this paper we examine the degree to which Michigan’s property value assessment growth cap has eroded the tax base and created substantial differences in effective tax rates among residential properties within the City of Detroit. While the analysis focuses on a specific city with...

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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?

Babalos, Vassilis; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in...

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century African-American Stature

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter...

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century US White Statures

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2009

Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...

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