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Measuring the Integration of Staple Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Cross Border Trade in the East African Community

Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy - CESifo - 2011

This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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Biodiversity and Geography

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2007

The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic...

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Comparative Advantage and Skill-Specific Unemployment

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2009

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...

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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries

Egger, Hartmut; Meland, Frode - CESifo - 2011

setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …

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Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions: On Revealed Comparative Advantage and Merger Waves

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2005

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and on mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we are able to test two implications of Neary’s (2003, 2004a) recent theoretical work. Analyzing M&As in a General Oligopolistic Equilibrium (GOLE) model incorporating strategic...

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The Distribution of Talent and the Pattern and Consequences of International Trade

Grossman, Gene - CESifo - 2002

In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of talent can be an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two activities, one in which an individual's contribution to production can be measured accurately and another in which...

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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration

Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2007

Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...

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Labor Standards and Economic Integration in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis

Dehejia, Vivek; Samy, Yiagadeesen - CESifo - 2006

This study is motivated by frequent calls to harmonize labor standards across countries, which result from the fear that economic integration (and the accompanying liberalization of trade flows) will lead to an erosion of working conditions, as countries deliberately try to reducelabor standards...

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Structural Change in OECD Comparative Advantage

Brakman, Steven; Inklaar, Robert; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2010

and India nor the deregulation programs in many OECD countries is likely to have been the main cause. Instead, the …

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