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Agricultural productivity shocks and poverty in India : the short- and long-term effects of monsoon rainfall
Brey, Björn; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2019
This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian … agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension … (local/regional). We find that particularly negative regional shocks exert adverse effects. The enormous drop in agricultural …
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Trade, skills and productivity
Mion, Giordano; Silva, Joana - 2024
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Non-tariff barriers and consumer prices: evidence from Brexit
Bakker, Jan David; Datta, Nikhil; Davies, Richard; De … - 2022
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The impact of price frames on consumer decision making : experimental evidence
Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - 2013
We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first result is that export...
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The law of one food price
Clements, Kenneth W.; Si, Jiawei; Long Hai Vo - 2019
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Turkish EU Membership: A Simulation Study of Economic Effects
Sulamaa, Pekka; Widgrén, Mika - 2006
This paper evaluates the economic effects of Turkish EU membership. The evaluation is based on a widely utilized computable general equilibrium model called GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project). Imperfect competition is modelled via assumption of scale economies on non agricultural sectors. The...
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Offshoring, Relocation and the Speed of Convergence: Convergence in the Enlarged European Union
Alho, Kari E. O.; Kaitila, Ville; Widgrén, Mika - 2008
Economic convergence of the new member states (NMS) of the EU towards the old EU countries (EU-15), not only in terms of real income, but also in nominal terms, is of paramount importance for the whole of the EU. We build a dynamic CGE model, starting from the Balassa-Samuelson two-sector...
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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...
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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...
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The determinants of service imports : the role of cost pressure and financial constraints
Biewen, Elena; Harsch, Daniela; Spies, Julia - 2012
This study provides evidence on how German multinational firms have restructured their service activities around the recent crisis. Making use of new micro-level data on service imports of German multinationals from 2002-2008, we assess the determinants of service offshoring along the extensive...
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