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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality
Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2014
We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...
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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union
Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
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Financial Markets and Economic Growth in Poland: Simulations with an Econometric Model
Wdowinski, Piotr - CESifo - 2005
In this paper we present simulations of economic performance of the Polish economy based on a quarterly econometric model. The model consists of 22 stochastic equations, which link the financial market with the real economy. The purpose of the research is to present effects of changes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766248
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Productivity as if Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - CESifo - 2013
1.63% increase in real income. Furthermore, favorably endowed regions attract more economic activity, providing new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877649
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Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor; Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877676
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Sectoral Trade Freeness and Agglomeration in the EU: An Empirical Test Strategy
Cafiso, Gianluca - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the evolution of trade freeness and of the agglomeration of production, as well as their relationship, at the sectoral level in a group of EU countries. Our main objective is to test at the sectoral level the conclusions of previous aggregate analyses which find that an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877933
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EU-Accession Effects on Sectoral Trade: A Helpman-Melitz-Rubinstein Approach with Panel Data
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vidovic, Martina; Voicu, … - CESifo - 2014
This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in final goods separately. A gravity model is applied to disaggregated trade data over the period 1999-2009 for trade between EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877956
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The Domestic Segment of Global Supply Chains in China under State Capitalism
Tang, Heiwai; Wang, Fei; Wang, Zhi - CESifo - 2014
This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877988
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Firm Performance and Trade with Low-Income Countries: Evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - CESifo - 2014
analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share around and after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization …. Based on this stylized fact, we analyze the link between firm characteristics and trade with low-income countries. We find … export to low-income countries, ii) exporting to low-income countries is mostly coupled to exporting to high-income countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888447
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Oil Trade and Climate Policy
Curuk, Malik; Sen, Suphi - CESifo - 2015
It has been argued that a depletable resource owner might optimally increase near-term supply in response to environmental policies promoting the development of alternative resources, which might render climate policy ineffective or even counterproductive. This paper empirically confirms this...
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