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between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology …
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The effect of Brexit is an important topic in the European and British political agendas. This study examines the … working in Portugal would have evolved if the Remain vote had won the referendum. Our results suggest that the Brexit … individuals with temporary employment contracts. This reduction is explained by the decrease in the number of incomers. We also …
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We study a policy game between exporting and importing countries in vertically linked industries. In a successive international Cournot oligopoly, we analyse incentives for using tax instruments strategically to shift rents vertically, between exporting and importing countries, and horizontally,...
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Politicians travel extensively abroad, for various reasons. One purpose of external visits is to improve bilateral economic relations. In this paper, I examine the effect of state visits on international trade. I use a large data set covering the travel activities of the heads of state of...
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Germany's export market share increased since 2000, while most industrial countries experienced declines. This study …-shoring). An export model is estimated covering the period 1993 2005. The dominant factor explaining the increase in market share … are trade relationships with fast growing countries. Regionalized production in the export sector also played a part …
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This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive investment refers to the size of a firm's capital stock. Extensive...
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improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process …
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interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the …
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this theoretical and empirical puzzle by diagnosing a "pathological export boom" and a "bazaar effect". Excessively high … fraction of the labour intensive sectors and drive too much capital and labour into the capital intensive export sectors … upstream production activities which implies that export quantities grow too much in relation to value added contained in …
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Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) provide cross-country evidence that the resource curse is a 'red herring' once one corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource exports are no longer significant while the value of...
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