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Resource-based reluctance, reversed asymmetry, and non-trade integration incentives: theory and evidence from European neighbourhood

Franke, Anja; Gawrich, Andrea; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

Among ENP countries, Azerbaijan is outstanding because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU at the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU cooperation, especially with respect to trade. We develop a comprehensive theoretical concept for...

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Offshoring and labour market inequalities

Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...

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Evaluating the search and matching model with sticky wages

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2010

Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching models while preserving individual rationality. I evaluate the quantitative implications of such an approach. I feed through a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search...

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Sticky wages in search and matching models in the short and long run

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage bargaining. It turns out that there is a strong tradeoff inherent in assuming that previously bargained sticky wages apply to new hires. If sticky wages apply to new hires, then the...

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Matching labor's share in a search and matching model

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

In the United States, labor’s share of income falls after a positive disturbance to productivity growth or inflation, and it remains low for some time. Previous researchers have argued that the negative relationship between productivity growth and labor’s share is puzzling. I argue...

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Corrupt governments receive less bilateral aid: Governance and the delivery of foreign aid through non-government actors

Acht, Martin; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Thiele, Rainer - 2014

A core result of the aid allocation literature is that the quality of governance in recipient countries does not affect … through different channels and considering different dimensions of governance, we provide evidence that bypassing governments …

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Turning the global thermostat - who, when, and how much?

Rickels, Wilfried; Quaas, Martin F.; Ricke, Kate; … - 2018

Engineering the climate via Solar Radiation Management (SRM) is increasingly considered as a component of future climate policies. We study the strategic incentives for countries to choose the level of SRM at different times in the future, accounting for the regionally uneven effect of SRM on...

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Economic and political governance in Germany's social market economy

Siebert, Horst - 2004

Germany's system of economic and political governance strongly relies on group decision-making and consensus to solve … the employers' associations in wage formation, the trade unions in the governance of firms through codetermination and the … codetermination and by a governmental planning approach. In addition, in the governance of government and its federal structure …

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Prospective membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

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Which membership matters? External vs. internal determinants of institutional change in transition countries

Drautzburg, Thorsten; Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer - 2008

Governance Indicators (WBGI) based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2005. We show that natural … incentives for good governance. …

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