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Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - 2011

Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features … the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …

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The development of cities in Italy 1300 - 1861

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2007

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Trade costs, market access and economic geography : why the empirical specification of trade costs matters

Bosker, Maarten (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2007

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Cross-border mergers & acquisitions : the facts as a guide for international economics

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The positive border effect of EU integration

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2011

Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...

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Growth and trade with frictions : a structural estimation framework

Anderson, James E.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2015

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through changes in consumer and producer prices that in turn stimulate or impede physical capital accumulation. At the same time, growth affects trade, directly through changes in...

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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002

We construct a unique data set to analyze whether or not a large temporary shock had an impact on German city growth and city size distribution. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein (2001) on Japan, we take the strategic bombing of German cities during WWII as our example of such a...

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Investor protections and concentrated ownership : assessing corporate control mechanisms in the Netherlands

Chirinko, Robert S.; Ees, Hans van; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2003

The Berle-Means problem - information and incentive asymmetries disrupting relations between knowledgeable managers and remote investors - has remained a durable issue engaging researchers since the 1930's. However, the Berle-Means paradigm - widely-dispersed, helpless investors facing strong,...

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International trade and unemployment : a quantitative framework

Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2012

Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...

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Estimating general equilibrium trade policy effects : GE PPML

Anderson, James E.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2015

We develop a simple estimation procedure for general equilibrium (GE) comparative static analysis of gravity models. Non-linear solvers of estimated models are replaced by (constrained) regressions. Applied economists can more readily generate results, with more intuition about the working of...

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