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Cultural integration and export variety overlap across countries

Egger, Peter; Lassman, Andrea - 2014

This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...

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The risk of policy tipping and stranded carbon assets

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon - 2019 - Revised July 2019

If global warming is to stay below 2°C, there are four risks of assets stranding. First, substantial fossil fuel reserves will be stranded at the end of the fossil era. Second, this will be true for exploration capital too. Third, unanticipated changes in present or expected future climate...

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Taxation and the multinational firm

Egger, Peter; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2017

This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax rates which affect multinational firms directly and focuses on provisions and incentives which relate to the profits and investments of such firms directly. It survey positive...

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Tax rate and tax base competition for foreign direct investment

Egger, Peter; Raff, Horst - 2011

This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...

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The determinants of trade costs : a random coefficients approach

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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Beyond the dogma of the fixed book price agreement

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003

the book world and the political arena. …

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Long-run links among money, prices, and output : world-wide evidence

Herwartz, Helmut; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2001

analyse this topic by means of a P-star model. Based on the quantity theory of money, this approach explains inflation via a …. Moreover, parameter restrictions for the long-run relationships implied by the monetary theory are tested. Country specific P … Preisniveau und dem realen Output testet. Weiterhin werden die Parameterrestriktionen, die sich durch die monet¨are Theorie …

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Are economists getting climate dynamics right and does it matter?

Dietz, Simon; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon; … - 2020

We show that several of the most important economic models of climate change produce climate dynamics inconsistent with the current crop of models in climate science. First, most economic models exhibit far too long a delay between an impulse of CO2 emissions and warming. Second, few economic...

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World-trade growth accounting

Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey K. - 2016 - This draft: March 2016

We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect components (general equilibrium effects). Furthermore,...

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