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Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market

Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

Given its signiÖcance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper o§ers a simple and transparent analysis of its main characteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budget sets are convex...

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Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists

Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … and the cyclical fluctuations in income inequality. The rise in income inequality was stronger at the bottom of the … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …

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Estimating The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Post Reunification East Germany

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … the panel if the unhealthy are more likely to drop out of the sample. Using cross-sectional variations in income and …

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Women's Relative Earnings Under Enterprise Bargaining.

Stephen, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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Immigration and Australia's population in the 21st Century. Household Saving, Immigration and the Current Account.

Taslim, M.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

There is some concern that immigration contributes to a larger current account deficit in a net borrowing country like Australia. The reason is believed to be that the immigrants on balance have a lower net saving than those born in the country.

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