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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014

Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....

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Mitigating liquidity constraints : public export credit guarantees in Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heiland, Inga; Yalçin, Erdal - 2012

guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of exporters' foreign customers, the policy is supposed to enable funding of …

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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

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From theory to policy with gravitas : a solution to the mystery of the excess trade balances

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2019

Bilateral trade balances often play an important role in the international trade policy debate. Academic economists understand that they are misleading indicators of competitiveness and of the gains from trade. However, they also recognize their political relevance, calling for accurate...

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Does WTO membership make a difference at the extensive margin of world trade?

Felbermayr, Gabriel (contributor); … - 2007

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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income : a new panel IV approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2011

disasters ; instrumental variable estimation ; panel econometrics …

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

explain movements on both margins. A Tobit estimation of this model resolves the so-called "distance-puzzle". It also finds …

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Quantifying Brexit : from ex post to ex ante using structural gravity

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; … - 2018

Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, this paper uses detailed bilateral trade data for 50 sectors to carry out an econometric ex post evaluation of the trade cost effects of the United Kingdom's various arrangements with the European Union. The analysis reveals...

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Restrictive immigration policy in Germany : pains and gains foregone?

Felbermayr, Gabriel (contributor); Geis, Wido (contributor); … - 2008

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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014

strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we put this trade policy initiative in its broader perspective. We argue … project could increase per capita income in Germany by between 1 and 3%. We critically question the need for investor …

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