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Internal Trade, Productivity, and Interconnected Industries: A Quantitative Analysis
Tombe, Trevor; Albrecht, Lukas - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2015
Does trade within a country affect welfare and productivity? What are the magnitude and consequences of costs to such trade? To answer these questions, we exploit unique Canadian data to measure internal trade costs in a variety of ways – they are large, and vary across sectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272939
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Internal Trade, Productivity, and Interconnected Industries: A Quantitative Analysis
Tombe, Trevor; Albrecht, Lukas - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2015
Does trade within a country affect welfare and productivity? What are the magnitude and consequences of costs to such trade? To answer these questions, we exploit unique Canadian data to measure internal trade costs in a variety of ways – they are large, and vary across sectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147650
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Internal Trade and Aggregate Productivity
Tombe, Trevor; Winter, Jennifer - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2013
International trade increases productivity; internal trade should too. The size and consequences of internal trade barriers are unfortunately not well known. Using unique Canadian data and multiple approaches to measure trade costs, we find internal trade barriers are large, especially for poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667329
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Increasing Returns and Spatial Unemployment Disparities
Suedekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
workers move from the periphery to the core, but it is rather reinforced by migration. These theoretical predictions of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985026
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Do Chemical Reactors Hold the Solution for Global Economic Crises?
Shachmurove, Yochanan; Shinnar, Reuel - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2012
What can economists learn from dynamic partial control of chemical reactors? Both chemical reactors and the economy involve many variables that are difficult to fully predict or control. Thus, this paper suggests the use of partial control, which involves indentifying only the key variables that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539672
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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation: Cause or Effect ?
Grossmann, Volker; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - … - 2012
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as … well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two … countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for a disaggregated view of migration that distinguishes between different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897031
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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation: Cause or Effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, Wilhelm - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as … well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two … countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for a disaggregated view of migration that distinguishes between different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592168
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Foreign and Domestic Trade - The History and Development of Science Branch
Černohlávková, Eva; Machková, Hana; Štěrbová, Ludmila - In: Politická ekonomie 2013 (2013) 4, pp. 407-419
Foreign and Internal Trade as the main disciplines in the field of research and study have developed theoretical systems that reflected historical development of international economic and business environment, governmental trade policy and international and domestic businesses. They created a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195225
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Global Real Estate Markets : Cycles and Fundamentals
Case, Brad - 2001
The correlations among international real estate markets are surprisingly high, given the degree to which they are segmented. While industrial, office and retail properties exist all around the world, they are not economic substitutes because of locational specificity. In addition, the broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012743024
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Subsidizing education in the economic periphery: Another pitfall of regional policies?
Suedekum, Jens - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2003
A very prominent instrument of regional policy is to foster education and human capital for-mation in economically lagging regions. However, this type of regional policy might actually hurt instead of help the recipient areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954322