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Asymmetric industrial energy prices and international trade

Sato, Misato; Dechezlepretre, Antoine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

estimate the short-run effects of sector-level energy price asymmetry on trade. We find that changes in relative energy prices … have a statistically significant but very small impact on imports. On average, a 10% increase in the energy price … these sectors however, the magnitude of the effect is such that changes in energy price differences across time explain less …

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Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change

Tavoni, Alessandro; Dannenberg, Astrid; Kallis, Giorgos; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

International efforts to provide global public goods often face the challenges of coordinating national contributions and distributing costs equitably in the face of uncertainty, inequality, and free-riding incentives. In an experimental setting, we distribute endowments unequally among a group...

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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...

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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change

Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

-profit maximizing managers to reconcile theory with the evidence. Empirically, I find that all productivity upgrades are driven by …

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Endowments, market potential, and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland (1918-1939)

Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and...

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Distance, skill deepening and development : will peripheral countries ever get rich?

Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper models the relationship between countries' distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports, reducing the amount of value added left to...

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Heterogeneous firms and trade

Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...

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Distance, skill deepening and development: will peripheral countries ever get rich?

Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper models the relationship between countries’ distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education, and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports, reducing the amount of value added left to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745241

The empirics of new economic geography

Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Although a rich and extensive body of theoretical research on new economic geography has emerged, empirical research remains comparatively less well developed. This paper reviews the existing empirical literature on the predictions of new economic geography models for the distribution of income...

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Explaining cross-country export performance: international linkages and internal geography

Redding, Stephen; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper investigates the determinants of countries’ export performance looking in particular at the role of international product market linkages. We begin with a novel decomposition of the growth in countries’ exports into the contribution from increases in external demand and from...

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