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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade
Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668821
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Economic Sanctions and Agricultural Trade
Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021
Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314668
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Trade costs in the global economy : measurement, aggregation and decomposition
Egger, Peter; Larch, Mario; Nigai, Sergey; Yotov, Yoto - 2021 - Manuscript date: 10 May 2018
Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of … significant new developments, both on the theoretical and on the empirical side, concerning the measurement and decomposition of …. The objectives and main contributions of this project are to offer guidance for proper measurement, aggregation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419247
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Spain, split and talk : quantifying regional independence
Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Paniagua, Jordi - 2023
We quantify the economic impact of a potential secession of Catalonia from Spain. Using a novel dataset of trade flows between 17 Spanish sub-national regions and 142 countries, we estimate effects of different levels of borders on trade flows and uncover heterogeneity in country-to-country,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422586
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Endogenous Labor Market Insitutions in an Open Economy
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Wolfgang, Lechthaler - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2011
The paper sets up a two-country asymmetric trade model with heterogeneous firms,search frictions and endogenous labor market institutions. Countries are linked by tradein goods and non-cooperatively set unemployment benefits to maximize national welfare.We show that more open and smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220131
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Migration, Trade and Unemployment
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2011
A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impactof globalization and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions forworker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposednegative effect of immigration on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371364
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Migration, trade and unemployment
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impact of globalization and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed negative effect of immigration on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372166
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Capacity Constraining Labor Market Frictions in a Global Economy
Holzner, Christian; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2011
Convex vacancy creation costs shape firms’ responses to trade liberalization. They induce capacity constraints by increasing firms’ cost of production, leading a profit maximizing firm not to fully meet the increased foreign demand. Hence, firms will only serve a few export markets. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320777
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Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - LeBow College of Business, Drexel University - 2013
Using a novel common econometric specification, we examine the measurement of three important effects in international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992331
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Migration, trade and unemployment
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012), pp. 1-40
A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impact of trade and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed negative effect of immigration on labor markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652578