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Unemployment in an interdependent world
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009
We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887183
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International trade and monopolistic competition without CES : estimating translog gravity
Novy, Dennis - 2010
This paper derives a micro-founded gravity equation in general equilibrium based on a translog demand system that allows for endogenous markups and rich substitution patterns across goods. In contrast to standard CES-based gravity equations, trade is more sensitive to trade costs if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003956003
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Trade and labour standards : theory, new empirical evidence, and policy implications
Dehejia, Vivek Harsha; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2002
Recent trade negotiations, both at the regional and multilateral level, have seen a resurgence of the issue of trade and labour standards. As the world economy becomes increasingly globalised and the volume of world trade flows keeps increasing between the North and the South, it is very likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514094
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Trade and uncertainty
Novy, Dennis; Taylor, Alan M. - 2014
. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or foreign suppliers, but with higher costs in the latter case. Due to fixed … the model with newly-compiled monthly aggregate U.S. import data and industrial production data going back to 1962, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358978
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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014
Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share...
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Trade exposure and the decline in collective bargaining : evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019
increased import exposure has led to an increase in the probability of German plants leaving industry-wide bargaining agreements …
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Import processing and trade costs
Carballo, Jeronimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021
measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to … buffer processing shocks. Based on this theory, we employ detailed data on import processing dates, instrumental variables …, and firm-product-origin level import data to estimate import processing costs. Evaluated at the median, import processing …
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German firms in international trade : evidence from recent microdata
Fauth, Matthias; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2023
information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …
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Labour taxation and foreign direct investment
Egger, Peter (contributor); Radulescu, Doina (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712504
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The political competition-economic performance puzzle : evidence from the OECD countries and the Italian regions
Padovano, Fabio (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2008
Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...
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