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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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.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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