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Fisher, Eric O'Neill; Gilbert, John P.; Marshall, Kathryn G. - 2015 - First version: September 21, 2014. This version: May 19, 2015

This paper defines a new measure of economic distance. Using consistent cross-country data, we estimate local unit costs for 35 sectors in 40 countries. The distance between two countries is the largest percentage difference in unit costs among all sectors. If all goods are traded, this distance...

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Gravity, distance, and international trade

Baier, Scott L.; Kerr, Amanda; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017

We review and interpret the main theoretical developments in the gravity literature from its very early, a-theoretical applications to the latest structural contributions. We also discuss challenges and implement methods to estimate empirical gravity equations. We finish with a presentation and...

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How far goods travel : global transport and supply chains from 1965-2020

Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong - 2023

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The spatial organization of multinational firms

Defever, Fabrice - 2010

Using six years of firm-level data covering 224 regions of the enlarged European Union, we evaluate the importance to a firm of locating its activities (production, headquarters, R&D, logistics and sales) close together. We find that, after controlling for regional characteristics, being closely...

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Trade in times of uncertainty

Matzner, Anna Hilda; Meyer, Birgit; Oberhofer, Harald - 2023

This paper analyses the direct and indirect trade volume and trade cost effects of uncertainty on international trade and economic welfare using a structural gravity framework for a panel of 97 developed and developing countries from 2000 to 2018. Our results suggest that an increase in...

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Estimating the trade and welfare effects of brexit : a panel data structural gravity model

Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2017

different counterfactual post-Brexit scenarios, our main findings suggest that UKs (EUs) exports of goods to the EU (UK) are … UK, the negative trade effects are only partially offset by an increase in domestic goods trade and trade with third … effects for the EU are negligible in magnitude and statistically not different from zero. …

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Whot voted for Brexit? : a comprehensive district-level analysis

Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017

380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade …

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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

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Industry-level labour demand elasticities across the Eurozone : will there be any gain after the pain of internal devaluation?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2014

(1970 - 2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides …

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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union

Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014

-tariff barriers. We find that, for the particular case of the EU, it is not possible to strictly discriminate between horizontal or …

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