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SAFE to update inflation expectations? : new survey evidence on euro area firms
Baumann, Ursel; Ferrando, Annalisa; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - 2024
This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across countries and shed new light on the properties and causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535260
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On price-setting for identical products in markets without formal trade barriers
Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2001
This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers. We use data from IKEA, a furniture company selling identical products in an identical shopping environment in different EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402390
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Costs and benefits of labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : the case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … hand also a vast majority of them come to Mazowieckie (Warsaw) Voivodeship. The study also confirms Poland is often not a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196429
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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2020
decreased while time in residence rises sharply. With less vehicle traffic, we find: a 50% reduction in vehicular collisions; an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214304
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Genetic, cultural and geographical distances
Giuliano, Paola (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355558
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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283185
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Integration, agglomeration and welfare
Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable 'new economic geography' model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is bubbleshapedʺ, i.e. it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002429482
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Acquisition of skills, education subsidies, and agglomeration of firms
Toulemonde, Eric (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001829820
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SISTA: learning optimal transport costs under sparsity constraints
Carlier, Guillaume; Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred; … - 2021
In this paper, we describe a novel iterative procedure called SISTA to learn the underlying cost in optimal transport problems. SISTA is a hybrid between two classical methods, coordinate descent ("S"-inkhorn) and proximal gradient descent ("ISTA"). It alternates between a phase of exact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519120
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Firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions in an open economy
Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R. - 2013
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208595