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Trade and FDI flows in the international economy

Spies, Julia - 2009

context.In Chapter 2, a new version of a theory-based gravity equation is developed to properly account for the relative price …

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Die wachsende Bedeutung des Online-Shopping und die Auswirkungen auf den stationären Einzelhandel : Aktuelle Trends und Entwicklungen

Momberger, Christian - 2002

Der Einzelhandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland leidet seit 1992 unter der schwachen Konjunktur und insgesamt geringen Reallohnverlusten und jetzt zusätzlich noch unter der Einführung des Euro. Wie das Statistische Bundesamt mitteilte, liegt der Umsatztrend für die ersten vier Monate des...

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Resource, Strategies, Location Determinants, And Host Country Location Choice By Emerging Market Firms

Jain, Naveen K - 2009

The extant literature had studied the determinants of the firms’ location decisions with help of host country characteristics and distances between home and host countries. Firm resources and its internationalization strategies had found limited attention in this literature. To address this...

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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations

Bayer, Patrick J.; Timmins, Christopher - 2005

With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economicproblems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e.,simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms of...

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Collaboration and international trade

Luechaikajohnpan, Pinijsorn, Economics, Australian … - 2008

Over the last two decades there has been a tremendous increase in collaboration among competing firms. Asignificant number of these collaborations are international. This thesis explores the incentives and welfareconsequences of collaboration in the context of international trade. We consider...

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Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland

Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2003

Swiss metropolitan areas are comprised of a system of communities with considerable fiscal autonomy. This study investigates how the income tax differentials across communities in an urban area affect the households` location decisions. Data from the urban agglomeration of Basel for the year...

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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations

Bayer, Patrick; Timmins, Christopher - 2003

With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economic problems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e., simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444180

Price Uncertainty, Expectations Formation and Fishers' Location Choices

Dupont, Diane P. - 1993

This paper deals with the effects of uncertain output prices upon fishers' location choices. It employs ARIMA models to construct the price forecasts used by fishers in a model which generates expected profits for three fishing locations in the British Columbia salmon fishery. A random utility...

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The Value of Climate Amenities: A Disequilibrium Approach

Sinha, Paramita - 2008

Formulating efficient climate policies requires estimates of the impacts of climate change. An important category of impacts are climate amenities--the value people attach to temperature and precipitation. There is a large literature that attempts to value climate amenities using the fact that...

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Essays in uninsurable income risk and household behavior.

Narita, Machiko - 2011

.S. homeownership rate by investigating the effect of each factor on the housing and mortgage decisions. The second paper assesses how … credit crunch caused the recent decline in the homeownership rate in the U.S. To answer this question, I develop a life … bust: the proportionally larger decrease in homeownership among non-college educated households. The fade-out of …

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