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Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021
phase-ins of agreements, lagged terms-of-trade effects, reverse causality, various estimation techniques, disaggregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315671
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Inequality and the Us Import Demand Function
Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2021
For the last fifty years, countries in Asia and elsewhere have witnessed a surge in aggregate savings per capita. Some empirical studies attribute this trend to the increases in life longevity of the populations of these countries. It has been argued that the rise in savings is short-run,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317372
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International Trade Integration : A Disaggregated Approach
Chen, Natalie - 2013
This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753160
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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
Felfe, Christina - 2013
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087731
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Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?
Bentolila, Samuel - 2017
Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961076
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Effective Corporate Taxation, Tax Incidence and Tax Reforms : Evidence from OECD Countries
Barrios, Salvador - 2014
The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044657
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Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2021
' labor supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that the fall in unemployment since …The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly … Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants …
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Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe : A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Hülsewig, Anja - 2021
, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316301
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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration
Brakman, Steven - 2011
Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130414
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Short and Long-Run Behaviour of Long-Term Sovereign Bond Yields
Afonso, António - 2010
This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135912