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How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273183
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Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalization on labor demand elasticities. Employment demand equation is estimated by using data (1971-1996) for manufacturing industries in Tunisia. Results from empirical testing using the model find a weak support for the idea assuming that trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762362
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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy
Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822177
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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover
Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic … competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763853
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279236
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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms: Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?
Suedekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279357
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Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233783
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Welfare in Models of Trade with Heterogeneous Firms
Janiak, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
I illustrate that the welfare improvement property of the Melitz model is due to the shape of the aggregate labor demand curve, which slopes upwards. By slightly changing some assumptions in the model, this curve may have a negative slope. In this case, increases in aggregate productivity result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233865
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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
technology potentials, market sizes, trade openness and various business conditions as well as the international repercussions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369421
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693834