O presente trabalho investiga os efeitos de políticas de reestruturação tributária do ICMS para o Rio Grande do Sul. O objetivo é avaliar se mudanças na estrutura tributária do ICMS podem gerar ganhos econômicos e de bem-estar ao mesmo tempo em que não prejudicam a arrecadação de...

Uma questão chave para a análise de atos de concentração e defesa da concorrência, como recomendado pelos Guias Horizontais, é a delimitação do mercado relevante.Esta delimitação segue o Teste do Monopolista Hipotético (TMH) instrumentalizado através da Perda Crítica. Apresentamos...

This paper employs a unit cost function to investigate the impacts of aggregate imports on the demand for skilled and unskilled labour in Australia. Similar to Tombazos (1999b), I use a model that focuses on the displacement effects of the Stolper-Samuelson variety, as well as recognizes the...

This paper is a dynamic extension of the well-known theory of trade in tasks by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008). In my model, a firm’s offshoring decision is governed by production cost savings, but also considers potential imitation risk. I show that such a consideration reduces the level of...

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm’s operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...

Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree...

We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the labor force altogether. We find no evidence of...

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...

We develop a three-country heterogeneous-firm model and show that FDI liberalization in one foreign country (F1) results in the following: (i) some firms from the home country switch from export to FDI in F1; (ii) skilled labor¡¯s wage rate drops in the home country; (iii) wage inequality...

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...