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State Visits and International Trade
Nitsch, Volker - CESifo - 2005
Politicians travel extensively abroad, for various reasons. One purpose of external visits is to improve bilateral economic relations. In this paper, I examine the effect of state visits on international trade. I use a large data set covering the travel activities of the heads of state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406336
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Trade, Education, and the Shrinking Middle Class
Blanchard, Emily; Willmann, Gerald - CESifo - 2013
distribution of human capital within and across countries. Our framework exploits a multiplicity of sectors and the continuous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627553
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Evaluating Real World Income Distributions behind the Veil of Ignorance - How Risk Averse do you have to be to Prefer Europe over the US?
Weichenrieder, Alfons; Zafar, Tasneem - CESifo - 2011
The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368502
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Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968-2009
Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
rates across the income distribution accounting for different tax bases as well as the role of transfers. The uniquely long …
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - CESifo - 2010
affect per capita incomes, which has repercussions for the income distribution even if wages remain constant. The aim of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727303
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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671705
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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877646
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877681
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Tariffs Passing Through Retailers: Do Tariffs Actually Protect Domestic Manufacturers?
Cole, Matthew T.; Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2014
in response to an increased tariff. Moreover, any production gains that occur are biased towards higher cost domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877688
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Preferences, Rent Destruction and Multilateral Liberalisation: The Building Block Effect of CUSFTA
Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - CESifo - 2012
tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can free policy makers to be more aggressive in multi-lateral tariff cuts … the data. Exploring the determinants of Canada‘s tariff cuts at the 8 digit HS product level, we find that CUSFTA acted as … an additional driver of Canadian multilateral tariff reductions during the Uruguay Round. …
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