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Strobel, Thomas - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … researchers to analyze structural investment behavior on the industry level and to identify changes in the importance of in-vestment …

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Human Capital and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle

Katsimi, Margarita - 2007

view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …

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Investment in Relationship-Specific Assets : Does Finance Matter?

Strieborny, Martin - 2013

-enhancing investment in relationship-specific assets by signalling creditworthiness and long-term planning horizon of their borrowers. We … empirically confirm this hypothesis by showing that industries dependent on relationship-specific investment from their suppliers …

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Tariff Liberalization and Trade Integration of Emerging Countries

Luca d'Agliano, Centro Studi - 2013

We investigate how tariff liberalization has affected exporting in emerging countries. We use a highly disaggregated bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs applied in 1996 and 2006, which includes the timing of the Uruguay Round and episodes of bilateral liberalization. Our...

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Agricultural Exports, Tariffs and Growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014

This article presents a Ricardian model of trade with learning-by-doing to study the effect of barriers to trade in products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the product with a lower learning potential is lower than...

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An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2021

This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the 'Dutch disease' and the 'resource curse', which primarily focuses on...

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Offshoring Domestic Jobs

Egger, Hartmut - 2013

We set up a two-country general equilibrium model, in which heterogeneous firms from one country (the source country) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or...

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2014

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation

Becker, Sascha O. - 2006

performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory …

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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O. - 2018

federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our …

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