Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 726
Cover Image
How Does the Flow of Remittances Affect the Trade Balance of the Middle East and North Africa?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2016
Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances … developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel … regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977472
Cover Image
Wider Boundaries : The Welfare State and International Remittances
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2015
welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … a positive relationship between a more generous welfare state in host countries and international remittances (i … addition, it is known that the welfare state, being an insurance or consumption-smoothing mechanism, reduces the negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018213
Cover Image
Skilled Worker Migration and Trade: Inequality and Welfare
Bougheas, Spiros; Nelson, Doug - CESifo - 2010
country. We analyze the consequences of this migration for both inequality and welfare for the source and the host country. … technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we allow for both trade and migration skilled workers migrate to that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833873
Cover Image
International Trade and Retailing
Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2009
The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051532
Cover Image
Product Standards and Margins of Trade : Firm Level Evidence
Fontagne, Lionel - 2013
We address the trade effect of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade, by matching a detailed panel of French firm exports with a new database compiling the list of Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary regulatory measures that have been raised as a concern in dedicated committees of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083875
Cover Image
Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm Level Evidence
Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Orefice, Gianluca; … - CESifo - 2013
We address the trade effect of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade, by matching a detailed panel of French firm exports with a new database compiling the list of Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary regulatory measures that have been raised as a concern in dedicated committees of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877692
Cover Image
Buyer Power in International Markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - CESifo - 2009
market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices may be higher and welfare may be lower in free trade than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013951
Cover Image
Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence from German Micro-Data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2012
We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547900
Cover Image
Border Effects Without Borders : What Divides Japan's Internal Trade?
Wrona, Jens - 2018
This paper identifies a “border” effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan is 23.1 to 51.3 percent lower than trade within both country parts, is established despite the absence of an obvious east-west division due to historical borders, cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915201
Cover Image
Innovation and Trade with Heterogeneous Firms
Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. Among the robust results that hold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572589