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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
Using a novel common econometric specification, we examine the measurement of three important effects in international trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration agreements, national borders, and bilateral distance....
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The Spatial Organization of Multinational Firms
Defever, Fabrice - 2021
Using six years of firm-level data covering 224 regions of the enlarged European Union, we evaluate the importance to a firm of locating its activities (production, headquarters, R&D, logistics and sales) close together. We find that, after controlling for regional characteristics, being closely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316109
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012565
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Goods and Factor Market Integration : A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017
use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration ows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period 2002 …-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration ows to labor … model and use these estimates, as well as the observed changes in tariffs, to quantify the effects from the EU enlargement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948334
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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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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect : Evidence from the European Union
Martinez-San Roman, Valeriano - 2014
-tariff barriers. We find that, for the particular case of the EU, it is not possible to strictly discriminate between horizontal or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051267
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EU-Type Carbon Emissions Trade and the Distributional Impact of Overlapping Emissions Taxes
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021
The European Union fulfills its emissions reductions commitments by means of an emissions trading scheme covering some part of each member state's economy and by national emissions control in the rest of their economies. The member states also levy energy/emissions taxes overlapping with the...
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Physical Distance and Cooperativeness Towards Strangers
Kuehl, Leonie - 2018
Cooperativeness among genetically unrelated humans remains a major puzzle in the social sciences. We explore the causal impact of physical distance on willingness to help. In a field setting, participants decide about supporting local refugees at the dispense of money to themselves. We vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926989
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Ethnic Geography : Measurement and Evidence
Hodler, Roland - 2018
The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930690
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The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships : Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913272