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Inequality and Trade Policy : Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions

Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2019

This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor trade policy is expected to have lower welfare gains or higher welfare loss at the low end of the...

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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2021

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development …

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Security, Trade, and Political Violence

Amodio, Francesco - 2017

To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...

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Do Foreign Workers Reduce Trade Barriers? Microeconomic Evidence

Andrews, Martyn J. - 2015

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour. We identify the nationality of each worker in a large...

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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

Cosar, Kerem - 2014

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...

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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries

Pflüger, Michael - 2011

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...

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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments

Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth

Campos, Nauro F. - 2010

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising 460 estimates of the effect of corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors...

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …

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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011

We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...

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