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Exporting Costs and Multi-Product Shipments
Gomtsyan, David; Tarasov, Alexander - 2021
mechanism considered in the paper is based on that multiproduct shipments allow splitting fixed costs per shipment across many … products and, therefore, reducing total shipment costs. As a result, more developed countries tend to have lower fixed costs …-product shipments in determining shipping costs …
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Is Hard Brexit Detrimental to EU Integration? Theory and Evidence
Mikolajun, Irena - 2018
In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems to have the upper hand. This is illustrated by the referendum of June 23, 2016 where the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908727
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The Origins of Common Identity : Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine
Dehdari, Sirus H. - 2019
The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. Using several measures of stated and revealed preferences spanning over half a century, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892173
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The Origins of Common Identity : Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine
Dehdari, Sirus H. - 2019
The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858698
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Gradualism and Uncertainty in International Union Formation
Konstantinidis, Nikitas - 2021
This paper introduces a new theoretical framework of international unions qua coalitions of countries adopting a common policy and common supranational institutions. We introduce a general class of non-cooperative spatial bargaining games of coalition formation among three countries in order to...
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Global Innovation Contests
Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023
This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth. Higher quality products are endogenously discovered through stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in...
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Parental Time Restrictions and the Cost of Children : Insights from a Survey Among Mothers
Borah, Melanie - 2019
In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos et al. (2009) that introduces a novel way of using subjective income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a...
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Fertility Cost, Intergenerational Labor Division, and Female Employment
Yu, Haiyue - 2019
China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892279
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Unlocking New Methods to Estimate Country-Specific Trade Costs and Trade Elasticities
Freeman, Rebecca; Larch, Mario; Theodorakopoulos, Angelos; … - 2021
We propose new methods to identify the full impact of country-specific characteristics on bilateral trade flows within the framework of ‘the new quantitative trade model.’ We complement theory with a simple two-stage estimating procedure, and offer a proof of concept by quantifying the...
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Fiscal Competition in Space and Time : An Endogenous-Growth Approach
Becker, Daniel Thomas; Rauscher, Michael - 2021
of immobile residents. Investment is costly: Quadratic installation and de-installation costs limit the mobility of … and effects of changes in installation costs are ambiguous …
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