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Creativity over time and space : a historical analysis of European cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2021
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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How low business tax rates attract multinational headquarters : municipality-level evidence from Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria - 2009
,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806078
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014
industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international … firm growth explains some recent empirical regularities on firm and labor market dynamics. Fitting the model to capture key … interact in shaping labor market outcomes. Focusing on the period 1996-2007, we find that neither trade nor key features of the …
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A retrospective study of state aid control in the German broadband market
Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021
broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission … subsidies complied with EU state aid rules, both in terms of effectiveness and competition. …
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The pass-through of temporary VAT rate cuts : evidence from German supermarket retail
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2021 - First draft: November 2020, this version: June 2021
identify the causal price effects, we compare the development of prices in Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate … competition. Pass-through of the VAT reduction was higher in product groups with a large number of competing products. We …
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Omnia Juncta in Uno : foreign powers and trademark protection in Shanghai's concession era
Alfaro, Laura; Bao, Ge; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Hong, Junjie - 2022
We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923 - an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...
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Marketmaking middlemen
Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode by which an intermediary holds inventories...
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Gender gaps in the urban wage premium
Elass, Kenza; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Schluter, … - 2024
We examine the economic geography of gender wage gaps to understand the role that location plays in gender earning differences. Using panelised administrative data for the universe of French workers, our findings indicate that women benefit relatively more from density than men, with an urban...
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Internal migration, remittances and economic development
Pan, Xiameng; Sun, Chang - 2023
We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated...
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The economic consequences of fiscal rules
Potrafke, Niklas - 2023
Fiscal rules are controversial. They mitigate politicians' flexibility in responding to shocks and pursuing expansionary fiscal policy. They help, however, to handle politicians' commitment problem in fiscal policies. I portray the new and fast growing empirical literature in public economics...
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