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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008808240
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Modeling inter-regional patient mobility : does distance go far enough?
Irlacher, Michael; Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Renner, … - 2021
This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to consult a physician in a particular region depends on a measure of spatial accessibility that accounts for the exact locations of both patients and physicians. Introducing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499616
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371905
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646817
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646454
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On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements : lessons from twenty years of trade integration
Baier, Scott L.; Yotov, Yoto V.; Zylkin, Thomas - 2016
We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560677
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Oil trade and climate policy : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, October 2014
Curuk, Malik; Sen, Suphi - 2015
It has been argued that a depletable resource owner might optimally increase near-term supply in response to environmental policies promoting the development of alternative resources, which might render climate policy ineffective or even counterproductive. This paper empirically confirms this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498602
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781959
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Impact of European food safety border inspections on agri-food exports : evidence from Chinese firms
Beestermöller, Matthias; Disdier, Anne-Célia; … - 2016
The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447532