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China and the TPP : A Numerical Simulation Assessment of the Effects Involved
Li, Chunding - 2012
other pacific countries are included, China is notable for its exclusion from the process thus far. This paper uses … numerical simulation methods to assess the potential effects of a TPP agreement on China and the other participating countries …. Simulation results reveal that China will be hurt by TPP initiatives, but the negative effects are relatively small given the …
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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations
Fisman, Raymond - 2014
reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer …
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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - 2008
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...
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The Fiscal Burden of Korean Reunification : A Generational Accounting Approach
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2004
This paper uses Generational Accounting to assess the fiscal impacts of Korean reunification. Our findings suggest that early reunification will result in a large increase in the fiscal burden for most current and future generations of South Koreans. The Korean reunification's fiscal impact...
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International Implications of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1996
This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a massive resource demand which parallels the US resource demand following Reagan's tax reforms in the eighties. The resource demand revised the German interest rates relative to...
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On the Number and Size of Nations
Alesina, Alberto - 1995
This paper studies the equilibrium determination of the number of political jurisdictions in different political regimes, democratic or not, and in different economic environments, with more or less economic integration. We focus on the trade off between the benefits of large jurisdictions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473839
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Macroeconomic Aspects of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1991
The paper comments on the economic effects of the German unification. Apart from discussing the unification in an international perspective, analyzing the distributional consequences, and pointing to structural adjustment problems, it emphasizes the distinction between the frequently cited money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475424
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The Economics of Density : Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces and an arbitrary number of heterogeneous city blocks. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which...
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Learning Capitalism the Hard Way--Evidence from German Reunification
Triebs, Thomas P. - 2013
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical data from the Ifo Institute's Business Climate Survey. We find that firms' forecasts improve as they age. We also exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms...
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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006
Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun - 2012
The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the period measured. We argue that a great social transformation--German reunification-- abruptly and permanently altered economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with...
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