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Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; van … - 2008
Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275800
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Unlocking the Value of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2008
Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094463
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Adding Geography to the New Economic Geography
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2021
For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way … this gap by adding more realistic geography structures to the Puga (1999) model that encompasses several benchmark NEG … to our multi-region setting with more realistic geography structures. Given these results, we then simulate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316995
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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography: Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - CESifo - 2007
Trade costs are a crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181587
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Unlocking the Value of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Brakman, Steven - 2008
Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772002
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The Empirical Relevance of the New Economic Geography: Testing for a Spatial Wage Structure in Germany
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the … central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314952
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The Empirical Relevance of the New Economic Geography : Testing for a Spatial Wage Structure in Germany
Garretsen, Harry - 2004
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the … central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786253
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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the … central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009780204
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The Empirical Relevance of the New Economic Geography: Testing for a Spatial Wage Structure in Germany
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - CESifo - 2000
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the … central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196275
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Town Twinning and German City Growth
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Oumer, Abdella - 2014
After World War II, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience, and it was aimed at creating renewed international understanding and co-operation between German cities and cities in other countries. The contacts created by town twinning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352415