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Borders within Europe
Santamaría, Marta A. - 2020
Are country borders still an impediment to trade flows within Europe? Using a rich microlevel survey with 3 million annual shipments of goods by road across 269 European regions, we construct a matrix of bilateral trade flows for 12 industries from 2011 to 2017. We then use the causal inference...
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Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse After 1950?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2002
This paper uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World … controlling for novel measures of the changing world economic environment. Rejecting alternative explanations based on changing … head in a world environment characterized by a moderately higher level of generalized tariff protection. We confirm the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469529
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The Value of MFN Treatment
Ghosh, Madanmohan - 1998
We discuss most favoured nation (MFN) treatment in trade agreements, suggesting that its value to individual countries depends critically on the relevant model solution concept used to evaluate it. We analyze both rights to MFN treatment in foreign markets, and the obligation to grant MFN...
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Import Diversion under European Antidumping Policy
Vandenbussche, Hylke - 1999
This paper is the first to study empirically the effects of European antidumping actions on import diversion from importers 'named' in an antidumping investigation, and potentially subject to protectionist measures, to countries not named' in the investigation. For this purpose we use a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471444
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Gravity with Gravitas : A Solution to the Border Puzzle
Anderson, James E. - 2001
The gravity model has been widely used to infer substantial trade flow effects of institutions such as customs unions and exchange rate mechanisms. McCallum [1995] found that the US-Canada border led to trade between provinces that is a factor 22 (2,200%) times trade between states and...
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Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France, and Belgium
Abraham, Katharine G. - 1993
the adjustment of manufacturing employment and hours in West Germany, France and Belgium, three countries with strong job … regulations that occurred in Germany, France and Belgium during the 1980s affected employers' adjustment to changes in output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474563
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International Shocks and Domestic Prices : How Large Are Strategic Complementarities?
Amiti, Mary - 2016
How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firm price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical identification strategy to estimate the elasticities...
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Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution : New Evidence from the Margins of Trade
Huberman, Michael - 2015
In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457815
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What Calls to ARMs? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Badarinza, Cristian - 2014
The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...
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A Phillips Curve for the Euro Area
Ball, Laurence M. - 2019
This paper asks whether a textbook Phillips curve can explain the behavior of core inflation in the euro area. A critical feature of the analysis is that we measure core inflation with the weighted median of industry inflation rates, which is less volatile than the common measure of inflation...
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