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This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...
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380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade …
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We propose a new data resource that attempts to overcome limitations of standard firm-level datasets for the UK (like … the ARD/ABS) by building on administrative data covering the population of UK firms with at least one employee. We also … of the evolution of aggregate UK and French productivity and markups: 2) Analyse the spatial distribution of productivity …
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This chapter looks at the UK's privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background … to the UK's privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of … performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at the relative roles of competition, regulation and ownership …
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the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic …
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Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive … after the EU referendum. Finally, within a theoretical framework we conceptualize an omitted variable bias arising in …
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...
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acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with …
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-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society, the UK’s largest household survey, which includes the EU … fallacy. In addition, we show that prediction accuracy is geographically heterogeneous across UK regions, with strongly pro …
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This paper investigates the role of firm heterogeneity in environmentally extended new trade models, contrasting Eaton-Kortum and Melitz models to Armington and Krugman models. We show that when emissions per sales are constant across firms -- a standard assumption in the literature -- all four...
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