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Off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries
Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - 2008
We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …
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Urban-Biased Structural Change
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis; Perroni, Carlo; Wong, … - 2023
aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the …Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … manufacturing firms that increasingly locate in suburban and rural areas. Motivated by these findings, we estimate a structural …
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Explaining the Body Mass Index Gaps between Turkish Immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012: A Decomposition Analysis of Socio-economic Causes
Dang, Rui - 2015
In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...
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Foreign Languages and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2014
Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries....
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Have Capital Market Anomalies Worldwide Attenuated in the Recent Era of High Liquidity and Trading Activity?
Auer, Benjamin R.; Rottmann, Horst - 2018
We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has significantly decreased exploitable returns of capital market anomalies in the US. Using a novel international dataset of arbitrage portfolio returns for four well-known...
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Common Correlated Effects Estimation of Heterogeneous Dynamic Panel Quantile Regression Models
Harding, Matthew; Lamarche, Carlos; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2018
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a heterogeneous panel model with lagged dependent variables and interactive effects. The paper adopts the Common Correlated Effects (CCE) approach proposed by Pesaran (2006) and Chudik and Pesaran (2015) and demonstrates that the extension...
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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American stature
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter...
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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century US white statures
Carson, Scott Alan - 2009
Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...
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Gravity without Apology: The Science of Elasticities, Distance, and Trade
Carrère, Céline; Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter - 2020
Gravity as both fact and theory is one of the great success stories of recent research on international trade, and has featured prominently in the policy debate over Brexit. We first review the facts, noting the overwhelming evidence that trade tends to fall with distance. We then introduce some...
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Financial, Institutional, and Macroeconomic Determinants of Cross-Country Portfolio Equity Flows
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof; … - 2022
We consider a new dataset that provides a description of the population of financial equity flows between developed countries from 2001 to 2018. We follow the standard practice of controlling for pull and push factors as well as gravity-style variables, while also accounting for the business...
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