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. In choosing between these alternatives, they face a trade-off between higher variable distance costs when exporting and …
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Trade liberalization can imply slow and long adjustment processes. Taking account of these adjustment processes can … change the evaluation of trade policy, especially when policy makers care more about the next couple of years than the …
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We use a dynamic trade model with two sectors and two types of workers to analyze the optimal setting of income … might even benefit from a trade war. …
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In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...
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We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … effects of trade liberalization. We show that the gains from trade will be distributed very unequally. While unskilled workers … when a skill-abundant country opens up to trade. …
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms … by trade costs and country size: smaller and/or more centrally located nations suffer less from inefficient policies at …
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We construct a model of trade with heterogeneous retailers to examine the effects of trade liberalization on retail … degree of pass-through and the large benefit that consumers seem to derive from trade liberalization. …
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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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Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the industrial specialization of European regions, thereby potentially affecting the extent of disparities between countries and regions. This paper reviews several theoretical...
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The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing …
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