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In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, export exposure may reduce the …
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This paper develops an approach that allows constructing regional proxies of government effectiveness at a highly dis-aggregated level. Our idea builds on the well documented interdependence between institutions and exports, which allows estimating the latent government effectiveness using...
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Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, exportexposure may reduce the …
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This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new...
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This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness iscausally associated to a … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …. Thepreferred specification suggests that a 10 percent increase in total trade openness reducesunemployment by about one percentage …
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Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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Krugman's (1979, 1980) monoplistic competition model of trade showed that countries with more similar per-capita GDP … trade more with each other. Does this mean that developing countries shift trade towards developed countries as a result of … high economic growth? The results reported in this paper challenge the link between per-capita GDP and trade predicted by …
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