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Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering programme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish substantial financial gains, with less than a third of...

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Retaliation against Trump's trade war : why and how the EU should find alternative export markets

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2025

In retaliating against Trump’s March 2025 imposition of import tariffs on EU aluminum and steel, the EU’s response … should be twofold: one, at the EU level, to apply retaliatory tariffs and negotiations, and two, to support country …-level efforts to minimize the impact of tariffs, including external substitution. We point out that the EU does not, however, at …

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Exports, imports and wages : evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009

The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...

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The quality-complementarity hypothesis : theory and evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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Does offshoring of materials and business services affect employment? : evidence from a small open economy

Michel, Bernhard; Rycx, François - 2009

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates...

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Energy prices, pass-through, and incidence in U.S. manufacturing

Ganapati, Sharat; Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2016

This paper studies how increases in energy input costs for production are split between consumers and producers via changes in product prices (i.e., pass-through). We show that in markets characterized by imperfect competition, marginal cost pass-through, a demand elasticity, and a price-cost...

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China's import competition, innovation strategies, and the role of unions

Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2025

This paper investigates the relationship between China’s import competition and the innovation strategies of domestic firms. Using firm level data from Italy spanning 2005-2010 and employing IV fixed effects estimation techniques, we find that the impact of China’s import competition on...

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The impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2020

trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession … and labor market power. Reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs has increased a firm's price-cost markup but decreased the …

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Pay and productivity in a corporatist economy : evidence from Austria

Fuess, Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes …

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The economics of human cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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