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Estimating Urban Road Congestion Charges

Newbery, David M G; Santos, Georgina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Economists wishing to analyse road congestion and road pricing have usually relied on link-based speed-flow relationships. These may provide a poor description of urban congestion, which mainly arises from delays at intersections. Using the simulation model SATURN, we investigate the second-best...

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Anti-Dumping Sunset Reviews: The Uneven Reach of WTO Disciplines

Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime; Tumurchudur, Bolormaa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The paper uses a new database on Anti-Dumping measures worldwide to assess whether the 1995 Uruguay Round Agreement on AD sunset reviews had any effect. Estimates from a count of revocations for a panel of AD-using countries over 1979-2005 show that a five-year cycle is more apparent after the...

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Developing Countries Exports Survival in the OECD: Does Experience Matter?

Carrère, Céline; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper focuses on developing countries that export for the first time to the OECD and obtains several important results on export dynamic, linking exports experience and exports survival. Using product level data at the SITC 5 digit level for 114 developing countries on the 1962-2009 period,...

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Modelling the duration of patent examination at the European Patent Office

Harhoff, Dietmar; Wagner, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We analyze the duration of patent examination at the European Patent Office (EPO). Our data contain variables that are correlates of the applicants’ and examiners’ assessments of a patent’s economic and technical relevance as well as ex post-application citation measures which indicate the...

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Heterogeneity in Wage Setting Behavior in a New-Keynesian Model

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Grajales, Anderson; Uras, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent …) framework by incorporating heterogeneity in nominal wage setting behavior among households. We solve this DSGE model and … heterogeneity in wage rigidity, such as the persistence in price and the wage inflation, which a standard New Keynesian model with …

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How do different exporters react to exchange rate changes? Theory, empirics and aggregate implications

Berman, Nicolas; Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

strategy. Hence, pricing to market is both endogenous and heterogenous. This heterogeneity has important consequences for the …

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Exports Versus FDI Revisited: Does Finance Matter?

Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The crisis on international financial markets that started in 2007 has shown the potential links between the financial sector and the real economy. Exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have declined, presumably not only because of a lack of demand, but also because of restricted access of...

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Financial Constraints and the Margins of FDI

Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...

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Dispersion of Beliefs in the Foreign Exchange Market

Jongen, Ron; Verschoor, Willem F C; Wolff, Christian C; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

be significant and positive for different measures of both trader heterogeneity and market volatility. …

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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...

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