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Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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A Tale of Parallel Integration Processes. A Gravity Analysis of EU Trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European Countries

Ferragina, Anna; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to...

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Trade, Wages, and Productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

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When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports: A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies

Ko, Chia Chiun; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions have turned into a particular form of export promotion. We set up a model in which there is free domestic entry, with banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set...

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Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources: Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics

López, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources (NR). The problem is particularly worrisome for economies that obtain a large share of their income from the...

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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …

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Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions

Wu, Steven Y. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...

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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?

Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...

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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper presents theory and evidence showing that institutional reforms in developing countries can effectively expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to...

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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...

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