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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter Marcel - 2010
international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148078
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Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods
Feler, Leo - 2016
We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982120
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Directed Generosity and Network Formation : Network Dimension Matters
D'Exelle, Ben - 2010
We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135187
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Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018
from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation … unionisation yields a positive impact on regional productivity, exceeding the wage growth, partly due to the closure of less … productive firms, but also enhanced productivity of the survivors and new entrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908876
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Social Norms in Networks
Ushchev, Philip - 2019
Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859300
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Migration Gravity, Networks, and Unemployment
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Lin, Gary - 2022
We develop and estimate a theory-consistent gravity model for interregional migration flows in the presence of … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240357
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129918
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael - 2010
improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134819
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136032
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138258