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Arming in the Global Economy : The Importance of Trade with Enemies and Friends
Garfinkel, Michelle R. - 2019
We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one’s incentive to arm given the opponent’s...
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Pound for Pound Export Diversification
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
We propose a short-run model of the extensive margin of trade and deploy it to distinguish and quantify domestic and cross-border margins. Our empirical focus is on the domestic extensive margin of trade (domestic distribution of a product) and its importance for quantifying policy and...
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The (Structural) Gravity of Epidemics
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2020
Epidemiological models assume gravity-like interactions of individuals across space without microfoundations. We combine a simple epidemiological frame-work with a dynamic model of individual location choice. The model predicts that flows of people across space obey a structural gravity...
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Die another day: duration in German import trade
Nitsch, Volker - 2007
for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade … large trade value and a low elasticity of substitution; and for trade pairs that command a large share of the German import …
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Asset Diversification Versus Climate Action
Hambel, Christoph - 2020
. In the longer run, however, a trade-off between diversification and climate action emerges. We derive the optimal carbon …
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Does Energy Diversification Cause an Economic Slowdown? Evidence from a Newly Constructed Energy Diversification Index
Gozgor, Giray; Paramati, Sudharshan Reddy - 2021
system. Given this backdrop, this study introduces a new measure of energy diversification. It explores its impact on … economic growth with increasing long-run energy diversification. However, some countries (OECD and G20) experience negative … economic growth due to energy diversification in the short term. The results also disclosed that energy diversification does …
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Unwilling to Train? Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation
Caicedo, Santiago; Espinosa, Miguel; Seibold, Arthur - 2021
We study firm responses to a large-scale change in apprenticeship regulation in Colombia. The reform requires firms to …
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Relational Collusion in the Colombian Electricity Market
Bernasconi, Mario; Espinosa, Miguel; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - 2023
Under collusion, firms deviate from current profit maximization in anticipation of future rewards. As current profit maximization places little restrictions on firms’ pricing behaviour, collusive conduct is hard to infer. We show that bids from certain firms in the Colombian wholesale...
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The Contribution of Short-Cycle Programs to Student Outcomes : Evidence from Colombia
Dinarte, Lelys; Ferreyra, Maria Marta; Melguizo, Tatiana; … - 2023
. We exploit unique administrative data from Colombia on the universe of students, institutions, and programs to control …
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International Trade and Social Connectedness
Bailey, Michael - 2020
We use anonymized data from Facebook to construct a new measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 180 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more with each other when they are more socially connected and when they share social connections with a similar...
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