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The trade and welfare effects of mergers in space
Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635266
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The role of public infrastructure for firm location and international outsourcing
Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - 2003
location policy in a (two-country) free trade agreement (FTA). It is shown that national public infrastructure investment has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508001
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The Role of Public Infrastructure for Firm Location and International Outsourcing
Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - 2021
location policy in a (two-country) free trade agreement (FTA). It is shown that national public infrastructure investment has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319887
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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy: Austria and the fall of the Iron Curtain
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2000
country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate …-skilled relative to low-skilled labour. For a panel of Austrian industries, we find first that decreasing trade barriers, which can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839123
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Labor Unions and the Scale and Scope of Multi-Product Firms
Egger, Hartmut; Koch, Michael - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
-product firms respond to a country’s movement from autarky to free trade with a symmetric partner country. Access to international … trade stimulates labor demand and raises the competitive as well as the union wage, thereby lowering firm scope in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867718
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Why Foreign Ownership May be Good for You
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - CESifo - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium two-country model with heterogeneous producers and rent sharing at the firm level due to fairness preferences of workers. We identify two sources of a multinational wage premium. On the one hand, there is a pure composition effect because multinational firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368503
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Why foreign ownership may be good for you
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium two-country model with heterogeneous producers and rent sharing at the firm level due to fairness preferences of workers. We identify two sources of a multinational wage premium. On the one hand, there is a pure composition effect because multinational firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372142
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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries
Egger, Hartmut; Meland, Frode - CESifo - 2011
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium trade model for two integrated countries that are similar in all … a source of comparative advantage, which crucially impact inter-industry trade and welfare in the open economy. In this … setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324090
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Trade, wages, and profits
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 332-350
openness to international trade has quantitatively important effects, leading to higher wage inequality and lower aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729785
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International Outsourcing in a Two-Sector Heckscher-Ohlin Model
Egger, Hartmut - In: Journal of Economic Integration 17 (2002), pp. 687-709
This paper analyzes the distributional effects of international outsourcing in a two sector Heckscher-Ohlin type model if both sectors get economical access to cost-saving international outsourcing. Thereby, it is shown that if both sectors are engaged in international outsourcing in...
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