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An Economic Theory of Foreign Interventions and Regime Change
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2011
I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124181
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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133620
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Innovation Contests
Pérez-Castrillo, David - 2014
We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants' efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055388
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The Language Effect in International Trade : A Meta-Analysis
Egger, Peter H. - 2011
Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117260
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Trade, Trust and Institutions
Yu, Shu - 2011
To investigate the relation between trust and formal institutions, we analyze bilateral trade patterns in a sample of 16 European countries between 1996-2009. Trust in trading partners has a significant positive effect on bilateral trade. However, our results suggest that trust and formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120565
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Distance, Globalization, and International Trade
Borchert, Ingo - 2017
For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the effects of proximity and regional trade agreements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963770
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Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs
Jacks, David S. - 2009
, Europe, and Oceania for the period from 1870 to 2000 and demonstrate an overriding role for declining trade costs in the pre-World … War I trade boom. In contrast, for the post-World War II trade boom we identify changes in output as the dominant force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156494
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Foreign Language Learning : An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor A. - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048885
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A Closer Look at Revealed Comparative Advantage : Gross-versus Value Added Trade Flows
Brakman, Steven - 2015
With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023177
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Trade Imbalances and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Marchetti, Juan A.; Ruta, Michele; Teh, Robert - 2021
Rising current account and merchandise trade imbalances marked the years before the global financial and economic crisis. These imbalances either contributed to or precipitated the crisis and to the extent that they create systemic risks, it is desirable that they be reduced. There are many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315818