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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

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A gains from trade perspective on macroeconomic fluctuations

Beaudry, Paul; Portier, Franck - 2012

Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that … incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into … gains from trade approach can easily explain why changes in perceptions about the future (including news about the future …

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International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation

Lutz, Stefan - 2003

and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented …

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The Effects of Quotas on Vertical Intra-Industry Trade

Lutz, Stefan H. - 2002

A quota on foreign competition will generally lead to quality-upgrading (downgrading) of the low-quality (high-quality) firm, an increase in average quality, a reduction of quality differentiation, and a reduction of domestic consumer surplus, irrespective of whether the foreign firm produces...

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Mutual Recognition of National Minimum Quality Standards may Support International Convergence

Lutz, Stefan - 2003

In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face qualitydependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can be used to increase welfare. The results of the one-shot...

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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective

Hogrefe, Jan - 2013

This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to...

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The Impact of Monetary Union on Macroeconomic Integration: Evidence from West Africa

Fielding, David; Shields, Kalvinder - 2004

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The optimal tariff in the presence of trade-induced productivity gains

Hübler, Michael; Pothen, Frank - 2013

tariffs. First, we solve a stylized 2x2 trade model of a large open economy and show that (a) productivity gains via exports … that the incentive to manipulate the terms of trade strategically vanishes, (c) the welfare gain that can be achieved via a … trade-induced productivity gains into account. The USA are the only model region that gains from European optimal tariff …

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Which indicators of absorptive capacity enhance import-induced South-North convergence in labor intensities?

Hübler, Michael; Glas, Alexander - 2013

We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains … the South-North gap in labor intensities within a couple of decades if it were solely achieved through the trade channel. …

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Exporting and labor demand: Micro-level evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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