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The availability and composition of labor is fundamental for the structure of international trade. This points towards … the importance of demographic transitions that affect trade through, for example, changing capital-labor ratios … link long-run changes of the demographic dividend to changes in the level of world trade for the 21st century. All the …
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By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we …
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The research on the location choice for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is traditionally restricted to a choice between countries. The within-country location choice is less prominent in the literature. If within-country location decisions are considered it is mostly limited to Greenfield...
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With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value … added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade …
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Following the trade collapse in 2009, Globalization has recovered but the growth rate slowed down compared to the … firms for the costs of involvement in global supply chains can explain the recent developments in trade flows. We formalize …
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Traditional trade theory assumes that countries are dimensionless points. Recent research shows, however, that the … internal geography of countries is important for the effects on trade. One aspect of internal geography is the uneven spatial …-condition tests whether the (urban) distribution of factors of production is uneven enough to affect the national structure of trade …
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By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions - M&As), we …
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Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete … and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are … contribution of technological progress and trade in recent labour market developments and allows us to identify the winners and …
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We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to … equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, therelationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade gains … and losses,the implications of distinct national markets linked through trade (thestarting point for all trade theorists …
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In explaining the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, urban economics and new economic geography (NEG) dominate recent research in economics. A main difference between these two approaches is that NEG stresses the role of spatial linkages whereas urban economics does not do so. We...
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