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Integrated Versus Segmented Markets : Implications for Export Pricing and Welfare
Becker, Raphael; Nigai, Sergey; Seidel, Tobias - 2021
This paper challenges the common assumption of market segmentation in international trade. To analyze export entry and pricing decisions of firms in integrated vs. segmented markets, we develop a novel tractable approach based on stochastic export costs that allows us to compare firm-level and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315233
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Uncovered Power : External Agenda Setting, Sophisticated Voting, and Transnational Lobbying
Battilana, Silvia Console - 2021
conditional on the entire voting profile, such a 'transnational lobby' can veto any proposal at no cost. If contributions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316770
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Trends of Children's Height and Parental Unemployment : A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2021
The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 - except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316616
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Trade with Nominal Rigidities : Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres; Ulate, Mauricio; Vasquez, Jose P. - 2022
We present a dynamic quantitative trade and migration model that incorporates downward nominal wage rigidities and show how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the empirical literature studying the “China shock.” We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244023
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How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union?
Berger, Helge; Mueller, Till - 2004
apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal … representation in a federal central bank addressing this question. Optimal voting weights reflect two opposing forces: the wish to … passive reaction to idiosyncratic national economic shocks. A perfect match between economic size and voting rights is rarely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261091
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Sectoral Okun's Law and Cross-Country Cyclical Differences
Goto, Eiji - 2020
We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841145
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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers
Herberholz, Lars - 2020
The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842974
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Subsidies for wages and infrastructure: how to restrain undesired immigration
Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2006
This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment. Matching grants for investment in infrastructure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263931
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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade
Bougheas, Spiros; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012
We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283588
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The inter-institutional distribution of power in EU codecision
Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2004
This paper analyzes the a priori influence of the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers (CM) on legislation of the European Union adopted under its codecision procedure. In contrast to studies which use conventional power indices, both institutions are assumed to act...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261094