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The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel through which trade liberalization affects economic performance. Competition fosters innovation and technology adoption which leads to increases in competitiveness and growth...
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Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on the Philippine cement industry where alleged cartel activities have taken place after the entry of the world's Big Three cement firms:...
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage...
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equilibrium analysis. The four parts of this approximation are: first, the estimation of the world price effect of removal of OECD … (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) distortions; second, estimation of the effects of changes in world prices … on domestic prices through a price transmission model; third, estimation of the impact on domestic production through a …
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France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …
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The goal of this project was twofold. The first objective was to find out to what extent publicly available beneficiary data (from managing authorities and commercial databases) could be used for quantitative, econometric counterfactual analysis. This led to a second objective: in the countries...
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Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child schooling by focusing on young...
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in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing …
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