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Skilled Worker Migration and Trade: Inequality and Welfare
Bougheas, Spiros; Nelson, Doug - CESifo - 2010
country. We analyze the consequences of this migration for both inequality and welfare for the source and the host country. … technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we allow for both trade and migration skilled workers migrate to that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833873
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International Trade and Retailing
Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2009
The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051532
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877692
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Buyer Power in International Markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - CESifo - 2009
market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices may be higher and welfare may be lower in free trade than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013951
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Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence from German Micro-Data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2012
We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547900
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Innovation and Trade with Heterogeneous Firms
Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. Among the robust results that hold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572589
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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - CESifo - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583633
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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - CESifo - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150657
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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 … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556846
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Remittances, Banking Status and the Usage of Insurance Schemes
Crayen, Dorothee; Hainz, Christa; Martinez, Christiane … - CESifo - 2010
Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572573