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East-West trade and migration : the Austro-German case

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...

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Immigration and trade creation for the US : the role of immigrant occupation

Mundra, Kusum - 2012

This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the...

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A tale of parallel integration processes : a gravity analysis of EU trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European countries

Ferragina, Anna (contributor); … - 2005

Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to...

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Modeling international trade flows between Eastern European countries and OECD countries

Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor); … - 2007

Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and the specific unobservable characteristics of each unit. We implement panel data econometric...

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How opportunity costs decrease the probability of war in an incomplete information game

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor); Xiang, Jun (contributor) - 2008

This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite...

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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union

Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020

gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost every country in the world, over 1985-2018, we find EU membership …

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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017

From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...

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Learning from Latin America’s experience : Europe’s failure in the “Lisbon process”

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2010

to make Europe the leading knowledge-based economy in the world with a "Latin American perspective". A realistic and … performance" of the world economy by multivariate, quantitative means, looking into the possible contradictions that might exists …

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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D : an introduction based on the European experience

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …

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Home market effect versus multinationals

Toulemonde, Eric (contributor) - 2007

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...

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