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The political economy of EU enlargement : or, why Japan is not a candidate country?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2002

In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high-income member countries) prefer a mutual market-opening with...

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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions

Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004

The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...

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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010

We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …-2006 period.--globalization ; public education ; composition of public spending …

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Inequality and relative reliance on tariffs : theory and evidence

Katsimē, Margarita (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we construct a Ricardian model of trade in vertically-differentiated products between a developing country and the (developed) rest of the world. Despite labour being the only factor of production in this model, tariffs (in addition to income taxes) have distributional consequences...

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Integration and search unemployment : an analysis of Eastern EU enlargement

Heijdra, Ben J.; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000

The paper develops a unified general equilibrium model including savings with overlapping generations, investment and search unemployment. Long-run analytical results for the small open economy identify capital accumulation as a prime transmission channel. The effects of integration on...

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Optimal minimum wages

Gabriel, Ahlfeldt,; Roth, Duncan; Seidel, Tobias - 2022

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Does liberté

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Milanović, Branko - 2000

The relationship between the distribution of political rights and that of economic resources has been studied both theoretically and empirically. This paper reviews the existing literature and, in particular, the available empirical evidence.Our reading of the literature suggests that formal...

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Trade and Imperfect Competition in General Equilibrium

Koska, Onur A.; Stähler, Frank - 2011

This paper employs a general equilibrium model of imperfect competition and trade in which capital is used to establish firms and labor is used for production. We show that two different types of equilibria may exist, one with factor price equalization and one with different factor prices. When...

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Estimated general equilibrium models for the evaluation of monetary policy in the US and Europe

Leith, Campbell B.; Malley, James R. - 2002

A persistent criticism of general equilibrium models of monetary policy which incorporate nominal inertia in the form of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) is that they fail to capture the extent of inflation inertia in the data. In this paper we derive a general equilibrium model based on...

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EU-accession effects on sectoral trade : a Helpman-Melitz-Rubinstein approach with panel data

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vidovic, Martina; Voicu, … - 2014

EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts for firm heterogeneity and selection bias in a panel …

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