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Epidemic trade
Börner, Lars; Severgnini, Battista - 2011
This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we estimate the speed (in kilometers per day) of transmission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009242313
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German wage moderation and European imbalances : feeding the global VAR with theory
Bettendorf, Timo; León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2015
German labor market reforms in the 1990s and 2000s are generally believed to have driven the large increase in the dispersion of current account balances in the Euro Area. We investigate this hypothesis quantitatively. We develop an open economy New Keynesian model with search and matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292316
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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration
Schmidt, Peter - 2012
Comparing the economic development and current situation of the internal markets of the U.S. and the EU, two things are noticeable. On the one hand, the EU is conducting massive regional policy programmes (notably the Structural Funds) to foster economic cohesion among the 27 nations belonging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515661
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The effect of early childhood education and care services on the social integration of refugee families
Gambaro, Ludovica; Neidhöfer, Guido; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2020
Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This … paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting regional … parents' integration. We find a significant and substantial positive effect, in particular on the social integration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287972
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International trade integration : a disaggregated approach
Chen, Natalie (contributor); Novy, Dennis (contributor) - 2009
of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance …. This trade integration measure is consistent with a broad range of recent trade models including the Anderson and van … such as Technical Barriers to Trade. Trade integration is generally lower for countries that opted out of the Euro or did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867934
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Inflation, price dispersion and market integration through the lens of a monetary search model
Becker, Sascha O.; Nautz, Dieter - 2010
the level of search costs and, thus, on the level of market integration. For less integrated markets, the inflation … theory. -- Inflation ; Relative price variability ; Monetary search models ; European market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952539
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Effektive Steuerbelastung der grenzüberschreitenden Geschäftstätigkeit nach den Vorschlägen zur Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung
Spengel, Christoph - 2000
Das Steuersenkungsgesetz stellt das größte Reformvorhaben auf dem Gebiet der direkten Steuern in Deutschland seit der Einführung des körperschaftsteuerlichen Anrechnungssystems zum 1.1.1977 dar. Vorgesehen sind eine Änderung des Steuersystems, eine Verringerung der Steuersätze sowie eine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001465741
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Natural resources, export concentration and financial development
Hattendorff, Christian - 2014
Recent studies indicate that the natural resource curse, that is, the negative link between resource abundance and growth, may operate through a country’s financial system. Scholars show that resource-abundant economies suffer from lower financial development, which may indirectly affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433904
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Natural resources, demand for external finance and financial development
Hattendorff, Christian - 2014
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433905
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Exporting costs and multi-product shipments
Gomtsyan, David; Tarasov, Alexander - 2020
In this paper, employing transaction level data for Russian imports, we explore the role of multi-product shipments in explaining shipping patterns across countries. First, we document that firms from more developed countries include on average more different products into a single shipment. We...
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