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Egger, Peter; Průša, Jan - 2014

This paper assesses whether the sensitivity of bilateral trade volumes to various trade cost factors is constant or varies across countries. It utilizes a random coeffcients model and analyses a cross-sectional sample of bilateral trade data for 96 countries in 2005. We expect the elasticity of...

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is noncompulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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Carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth : an assessment based on production and consumption emission inventories

Fernández-Amador, Octavio; Francois, Joseph F.; … - 2017

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Somatic distance, cultural affinities, trust and trade

Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2018

Somatic distance, or differences in physical appearance, proves to be extremely important in the gravity model of bilateral trade in conformity with results in other areas of economics and outside of it in the social sciences. This is also true quite independently of survey evidence about...

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Threshold and interaction effects in the openness-productivity growth relationship : the role of institutions and natural barriers

Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; Kneller, Richard; … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

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Native language, spoken language, translation and trade

Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2012

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What determines BITs?

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Egger, Peter - 2011

model of world trade and foreign direct investment with three factors, two products, and explicit natural as well as policy …

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Foreign language learning : an econometric analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor; Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid Toubal - 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 …

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Foreign language learning : an econometric analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor; Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2014

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