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The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

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Price equalization does not imply free trade

Mutreja, Piyusha; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; … - 2013

In this paper we show that price equalization alone is not sufficient to determine the barriers to international trade. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of trade. We demonstrate this first theoretically in a...

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The geography of inter-state resource wars

Caselli, Francesco; Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - 2013

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The positive economics of labor market rigidities and investor protection

Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2001

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International investment positions and exchange rate dynamics

Binder, Michael; Offermanns, Christian J. - 2014

We revisit medium- to long-run exchange rate determination, focusing on the role of international investment positions. To do so, we make use of a new econometric framework accounting for conditional long-run homogeneity in heterogeneous dynamic panel data models. In particular, in our model the...

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The determinants of trade costs : a random coefficients approach

Egger, Peter; Průša, Jan - 2014

This paper assesses whether the sensitivity of bilateral trade volumes to various trade cost factors is constant or varies across countries. It utilizes a random coeffcients model and analyses a cross-sectional sample of bilateral trade data for 96 countries in 2005. We expect the elasticity of...

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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature our results suggest that...

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Special issue: Economic returns to schooling : new evidence

Ashenfelter, Orley (contributor) - 1999

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Finding relevant variables in sparse Bayesian factor models : economic applications and simulation results

Kaufmann, Sylvia; Schumacher, Christian - 2012

This paper considers factor estimation from heterogenous data, where some of the variables are noisy and only weakly informative for the factors. To identify the irrelevant variables, we search for zero rows in the loadings matrix of the factor model. To sharply separate these irrelevant...

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Going deep : the trade and welfare effects of TTIP

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga - 2014

rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …

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