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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity

Barro, Robert J. - 2020

.0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …

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Inequality and relative reliance on tariffs : theory and evidence

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2005

country and the (developed) rest of the world. Despite labour being the only factor of production in this model, tariffs (in …

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Inequality and the Import Demand Function

Adam, Antonis; Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2021

In this paper we build a model of trade in vertically differentiated products and find that income inequality can affect the demand for imports even in the presence of homothetic preferences. The empirical importance of changes in inequality on the demand for imports is then assessed by...

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Human capital and the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2007

In this paper we reexamine the Feldstein-Horioka finding of limited international capital mobility by using a broader view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to this change.

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Inequality and the import demand function

Adam, Antonis; Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2008

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …

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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions : on revealed comparative advantage and merger waves

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2005

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and on mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we are able to test two implications of Neary's (2003, 2004a) recent theoretical work. Analyzing M&As in a General Oligopolistic Equilibrium (GOLE) model incorporating strategic interaction...

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Cross-border mergers & acquisitions: the facts as a guide for international economics

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2006

Using a detailed and large data set on cross-border merger and acquisitions we discuss the relationship between theory …

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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income: A new panel IV approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2011

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...

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Turkish delight for some, cold turkey for others?: The effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2005

Following Turkey’s application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly covering trade in manufacturing goods and processed agricultural products, came into effect in 1995. In addition to a large agricultural sector, Turkey also specializes in the...

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