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The Globalisation of Inflation : The Growing Importance of Global Value Chains
Auer, Raphael - 2017
Greater international economic interconnectedness over recent decades has been changing inflation dynamics. This paper presents evidence that the expansion of global value chains (GVCs), ie cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services, is an important channel through which global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958886
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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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International Inflation Spillovers Through Input Linkages
Auer, Raphael - 2017
We document that observed international input-output linkages contribute substantially to synchronizing producer price inflation (PPI) across countries. Using a multi-country, industry-level dataset that combines information on PPI and exchange rates with international and domestic input-output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958731
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Offshoring along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp - 2009
Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764740
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Withering Academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136878
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Genes, Economics, and Happiness
De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2014
We explore the influence of genetic variation on subjective well-being by employing a twin design and genetic association study. In a nationally-representative twin sample, we first show that about 33% of the variation in life satisfaction is explained by genetic variation. Although previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070290
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Identifying the Effects of Place-Based Policies - Causal Evidence from Germany
Dettmann, Eva - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988971
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Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor; Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 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/10010877676
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Genes, Economics, and Happiness
Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Christakis, Nicholas A.; Fowler, … - CESifo - 2010
We explore the influence of genetic variation on subjective well-being by employing a twin design and genetic association study. In a nationally-representative twin sample, we first show that about 33% of the variation in life satisfaction is explained by genetic variation. Although previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534020
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Withering Academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671696