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Going deep : the trade and welfare effects of TTIP

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heiland, Inga - 2014

rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …

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Consumer preferences and the reliability of Euler equation tests of capital mobility : some simulation-based evidence

Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

The globalization of international financial markets has renewed interest in the measurement of capital mobility. Consumption-based tests such as the Euler equation test are commonly used. These tests, however, are derived under restrictive assumptions on consumer behavior. In this paper, we ask...

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Where is the value added? : trade liberalization and production networks

Aichele, Rahel; Heiland, Inga - 2016

theory-based measures for production networks from a multi-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages to analyze the …, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … and for about 7% of the decline in this figure on the world level as observed between 2000 and 2007. Furthermore, our …

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Commodity price volatility, democracy and economic growth

Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...

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Kyoto and carbon leakage : an empirical analysis of the carbon content of bilateral trade

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2011

Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...

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Commodity windfalls, polarization, and net foreign assets : panel data evidence on the voracity effect

Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - 2011

This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...

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Beyond the veil of ignorance : the influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Teobaldelli, Désirée - 2012

In this paper we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the shadow economy. Countries where direct democratic...

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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014

America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy

Torgler, Benno (contributor); … - 2007

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