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Petersberger Erklärung : Anstöße für eine zukunftsgerichtete Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Burda, Michael C.; Hagen, Jürgen von - 1998

In this paper six authors propose guidelines for German labor market policy, to overcome current discouragement and lead to a new balance of social security and individual competetiveness. Crucial aspects in this regard should be a reformed tax system based on excise instead of income taxes, and...

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Trade and location with land as a productive factor

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); … - 2008

the stylized facts, notably that wages are higher in larger locations, land-use for production and housing has to be taken …

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Integration, agglomeration and welfare

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable 'new economic geography' model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is bubbleshapedʺ, i.e. it...

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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership

Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 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...

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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership

Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2016

This paper explores the effects of trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. We use a new quantitative spatial trade model with consumptive and productive uses of land and inputoutput linkages. Our...

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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...

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Agglomeration and tax competition

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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On pitchforks and tomahawks

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007

The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational hysteresis. We study this seminal model with CES instead of Cobb-Douglas upper tier preferences. This small generalization suffices to change these stark implications. For a wide...

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

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Business conditions and default risks across countries

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...

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