I examine the question whether social insurance is an appropriate means of redistribution in the presence of an …

Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht die Rolle von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen, Internationaler Handel und technischer … entsteht, dass die Länder durch zunehmenden Handel und Kapitalmobilität näher aneinander gebracht werden, zu analysieren. Das … technischen Fortschritt einerseits und internationalen Handel andererseits, als Bestimmungsfaktoren für die relative Nachfrage …

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and trade can be attributed to the fact that the two modes at times complement each other or … context.In Chapter 2, a new version of a theory-based gravity equation is developed to properly account for the relative price … Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) have substantially increased intra …

Die zunehmende Globalisierung der Märkte, unter anderem durch ansteigenden Handel von Güter und Dienstleisungen und … international trade in goods, services and finance. According to the WTO Trade Report (2008), the increase in international trade … trade integration is higher uncertainty due to intensified production specialization, increased competition and economic …

conventional quantitative trade models have difficulty explaining. It goes on to develop a theory of product level productivity … trade flows of nations, and the consequential implications for the levels of per capita income and welfare of their … populations. The first of these documents a pattern of comparative advantage in product level, bilateral trade data that …

First chapter aims to quantify the role of trade in capital goods incross country income differences. I construct a … multi-country general equilibriummodel of trade along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Alvarezand Lucas (2007) and … introduce trade in capital goods and capital accumulation.In this framework, comparative advantage and the costs of …

This dissertation examines the People´s Comissariat of Foreign Trade as an example of the development of early Soviet … problems of centrally planned foreign trade and the difficulties of establishing trading connections to the capitalistic states … considered as well as the contradictory interests of Soviet foreign trade on one hand and soviet diplomacy on the other hand. The …

ZusammenfassungDie Diskussion über die Wechselwirkungen zwischen internationalem Handel und der Nutzung natürlicher … ökonomische Theorie bedeutete dies die Notwendigkeit, die Annahme einer geschlossenen Volkswirtschaft innerhalb der Umweltökonomie … ökonomischer Untersuchungen ab, die die Auswirkungen umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen auf den internationalen Handel untersuchen, jedoch …

This dissertation explores the role of efficiency of redistributive institutions (ERI)on redistribution. The first … between incomeinequality and redistribution. This chapter first shows that even exogenously given ERIaffects the relationship … between income inequality and redistribution. Then, it introducesthree specifications to endogenize ERI. In these various …