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Evaluating Labor Market Reforms : A General Equilibrium Approach
Alonso-Borrego, César - 2005
Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This belief has led several countries to reform their labor markets and liberalize the use of fixed-term contracts. Despite how common such contracts have become after deregulation, there...
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Understanding the Gains from Wage Flexibility : The Exchange Rate Connection
Galí, Jordi - 2016
We study the gains from increased wage flexibility using a small open economy model with staggered price and wage setting. Two results stand out: (i) the effectiveness of labor cost reductions as a means to stimulate employment is much smaller in a currency union, (ii) an increase in wage...
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Foreign Influence and Welfare
Antràs, Pol - 2008
How do foreign interests influence the policy determination process? What are the welfare implications of such foreign influence? In this paper we develop a model of foreign influence and apply it to the study of optimal tariffs. We develop a two-country voting model of electoral competition,...
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Trade Policy Making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining
Celik, Levent - 2011
In democracies, trade policy is the result of interactions among many agents with different agendas. In accordance with this observation, we construct a dynamic model of legislative trade policy-making in the realm of distributive politics. An economy consists of different sectors, each of which...
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Consumption and Cash-Flow Taxes in an International Setting
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2013
We model the effects of consumption-type taxes which differ according to the base and location of the tax. Our model incorporates a multinational producing and selling in two countries with three sources of rent, each in a different location: a fixed basic production factor (located with initial...
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Transition to FDI Openness : Reconciling Theory and Evidence
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2011
conclusive evidence that they are positive, as theory predicts. This paper shows that the lack of empirical evidence is … consistent with theory if countries are in transition to FDI openness. Anticipated welfare gains lead to temporary declines in … reconciliation of theory and evidence is accomplished with a multicountry dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized with data …
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How Big are the Gains from International Financial Integration?
Hoxha, Indrit - 2009
The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...
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Trade, Diffusion and the Gains from Openness
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres - 2007
Building on Eaton and Kortum's (2002) model of Ricardian trade, Alvarez and Lucas (2005) calculate that a small country representing 1% of the world's GDP experiences a gain of 41% as it goes from autarky to frictionless trade with the rest of the world. But the gains from openness, which...
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Y2K and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish - 2005
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...
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The Elusive Gains from International Financial Integration
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2003
Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this type of...
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