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Cross-border shopping : evidence and welfare implications for Switzerland
Burstein, Ariel T.; Lein-Rupprecht, Sarah M.; Vogel, … - 2024
Consumers access foreign goods by purchasing them domestically or shopping abroad. We present new facts on cross-border shopping by Swiss households showing, for example, that prices of identical products are lower in neighboring countries, cross-border shopping shares fall with distance to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015071171
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How far goods travel : global transport and supply chains from 1965-2020
Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252562
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The Brexit conundrum worsens the UK's relationship with the European Union
Ryan, John T. - 2019
This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister … government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic politics, over negotiations with the EU27. Brexit negotiations were poorly … planned and the government was woefully unprepared. Brexit also threatens a serious re-opening of old wounds in Northern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012065056
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Trade in times of uncertainty
Matzner, Anna Hilda; Meyer, Birgit; Oberhofer, Harald - 2023
equilibrium trade and welfare effects of uncertainty induced by the unexpected outcome of the Brexit referendum in 2016 and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013550200
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Brexit and foreign students in gravity
Davies, Ronald B.; Specht, Lena S. - 2024
This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate … countries lose international students and non-EU countries host more than without Brexit. Our findings provide evidence that … there may be hidden costs to Brexit affecting global student exchanges that we have yet to see. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470430
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The political economy of regional integration projects at borders where rich and poor meet : the role of cross-border shopping and community sorting
Dascher, Kristof (contributor); Haupt, Alexander (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688889
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Borders, roads and the relocation of economic activity due to extreme Weather
Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2020
Extreme weather may give rise to the relocation of economic activity towards nearby locations. But how are the economic effects of weather events transmitted between locations? And, which role does the interconnection of small economic units play? This paper takes a granular approach to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195996
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Tax avoidance through e-commerce and cross-border shopping
Harbolt, Benjamin - 2019
As e-commerce has grown over the last few decades so has states' concern for its use for sales tax avoidance. Using a panel of Washington State tax jurisdictions from 2005 through 2015, I estimate the effect of a sales tax regime change on the elasticities of taxable sales. I find the regime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064529
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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration
Flückiger, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; Larch, Mario; … - 2019 - This version: July 2019
We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033121
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Valuing public goods : the life satisfaction approach
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
to estimate utility losses caused by terrorist activities in France, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Terrorism in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402544