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Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships : A Cross Country Evidence

Neutel, Marcel - 2014

In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T....

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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010

This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2012

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy : Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Pflüger, Michael - 2011

The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...

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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition : Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry

Raff, Horst - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration

Di Giovanni, Julian - 2013

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and destinations, using a quantitative multi-sector model of the global economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data on 60 developed and developing countries. Our framework accounts...

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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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Trade and Capital Flows : Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...

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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O. - 2018

This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German … empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic geography model in which public sector employment in a city can crowd out … private employment through higher wages and house prices, but also generates potential productivity and amenity spillovers. We …

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