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Gravity Redux: Estimation of gravity-equation coefficients, elasticities of substitution, and general equilibrium comparative statics under asymmetric bilateral trade costs

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Egger, Peter; Larch, Mario - In: Journal of International Economics 89 (2013) 1, pp. 110-121

A large class of models with CES utility and iceberg trade costs are now known to generate isomorphic “gravity equations.” Economic interpretations of these gravity equations vary in terms of two basic elements: the exporter's “mass” variable and the elasticity of trade with respect to...

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Optimal tariffs, retaliation, and the welfare loss from tariff wars in the Melitz model

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - In: Journal of International Economics 89 (2013) 1, pp. 13-25

This paper characterizes analytically the optimal tariff of a large one-sector economy with monopolistic competition and firm heterogeneity in general equilibrium, thereby extending the small-country results of Demidova and Rodríguez-Clare (JIE, 2009) and the homogeneous firms framework of Gros...

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Spatial exporters

Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - In: Journal of International Economics 95 (2015) 1, pp. 145-156

In this paper, we provide causal evidence that firms serve new markets which are geographically close to their prior export destinations with a higher probability than standard gravity models predict. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a data set of Chinese firms which had...

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International outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom

Hijzen, Alexander (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour … demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

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International fragmentation and relative wages in the UK

Hijzen, Alexander (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Do foreign-owned firms provide better working conditions than their domestic counterparts? : a comparative analysis

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2010

This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...

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