budget referenda passed and failed by narrow margins. The results indicate that increases in school expenditures reduce …

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within … Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not …-run phenomenon, while long-run fiscal behavior appears more consistent with standard theories of fiscal federalism …

paper aims to investigate the impact of international trade on wage dispersion in a small open economy. It is one of the few … both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … side, we find (on the basis of the system GMM estimator) a positive effect of exports on industry wage premia. The results …

assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … theoretical model and the empirical results for software firms from India provided by Bhattacharya, Patnaik and Shah (2010) there …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …

on trade, and especially on exports. Those immigrants should be the ones directly involved in the diffusion and … exports to culturally different countries, such as those with different legal origin …

We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical …