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Innovation and Productivity in European Industries

Pianta, Mario; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … productivity and export success in European manufacturing industries and firm size classes. The empirical estimates are based on …-sectional estimation methodologies able to account for unobserved industrial characteristics, show that productivity in Europe relies on …

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The GTAP-W model: accounting for water use in agriculture

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S.J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Water and agriculture are intrinsically linked. Water is essential for crop production and agriculture is the largest consumer of freshwater resources. However, this link is commonly ignored by economic models mainly because water use is not reported in the national economic accounts. Few...

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Investment behavior in dynamic computable general equilibrium models for transition economies

Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

high marginal productivity of each unit of capital after a capital shock, augmented adjustment costs lead to a gradual rise …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276188

The impact of a customs union with the EU on Turkey's welfare, employment and income distribution: An AGE analysis

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

The economic implications and the income distribution effects of the CU between Turkey and the EU have been studied by applying a general equilibrium model to the Turkish economy. The numerical results show that the CU is not trade diverting. Most importantly, urban (rural) groups are better...

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Why exporting countries agree voluntary export restraints: The oligopolistic power of the foreign supplier

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

This study analytically shows that a VER serves as an institution to protect incumbent firms of an exporting country. A VER is an entry barrier in the export market. It favours the concentration of industry, and allows established firms to better exploit economies of scale by producing output at...

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Wohlfahrtseffekte einer nordatlantischen Handelsliberalisierung

Lübcke, Britta; Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Many WTO countries continue to deepen and widen regional economic Integration - despite already low rates of most-favored-nation tariffs in most cases. This paper discusses the possible welfare-increasing effects of trade liberalization between the European Union (EU) and the North American Free...

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A framework for environmental policy evaluation in the South African mining sector

Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper presents a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the analysis of environmental policies towards mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the class of static, trade-focussed models along the lines...

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The impact of a Customs Union with the EU on internal migration in Turkey under the two alternative Harris-Todaro and wage curve settings

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The impact on internal migration of the recent Customs Union (CU) agreement between Turkey and the European Union (EU) has been studied with an intra-industry trade Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model with intersectoral capital mobility, under two alternative specifications for the labour...

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National and international policies for tropical rain forest conservation: a quantitative analysis for Cameroon

Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1993

This paper provides a numerical general equilibrium assessment of policies to reduce tropical deforestation in Cameroon. Market failure - mainly in the form of national and international externalities - and policy failures - such as highly distorted product markets - are identified as major...

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Trading hot-air : the influence of permit allocation rules, market power and the US withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol

Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

After the conferences in Bonn and Marrakech it is likely that international emissions trading will be realized in the near future. Major influences on the permit market are the institutional detail, the participation structure and the treatment of hot-air. Different scenarios do not only differ...

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