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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Falck, Oliver - 2010

Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …

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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany's Post-World War II Growth Performance

Keller, Wolfgang - 1997

explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … account for the fact that East Germany was not the socialist showcase for which it was frequently taken before German …

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International Implications of German Unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1996

This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a massive resource demand which parallels the US resource demand following Reagan's tax reforms in the eighties. The resource demand revised the German interest rates relative to...

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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Consistent with this claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage discount for lower skilled workers, using matched...

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Using the New Products Margin to Predict the Industry-Level Impact of Trade Reform

Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2013

This paper develops a methodology for predicting the impact of trade liberalization on exports by industry (3-digit ISIC) based on the pre-liberalization distribution of exports by product (5-digit SITC). Using the results of Kehoe and Ruhl (2013) that much of the growth in trade after trade...

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Intellectual Property Infringement by Foreign Firms : Import Protection through the ITC or Court

Brander, James A.; Spencer, Barbara J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines intellectual property litigation as a method of protection from patent-infringing imports. Claims against patent-infringing imports entering the United States may be filed before the International Trade Commission (ITC) or in district court. The ITC applies injunctions...

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Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?

Anderson, James E. - 2008

Contract enforcement is probabilistic, but the probability depends on rules and processes. A stimulus to trade may induce traders to alter rules or processes to improve enforcement. In the model of this paper, such a positive knock-on effect occurs when the elasticity of supply of traders is...

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