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Technological progress with segmented factor markets and welfare implications for the urban poor
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - 2015
Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a four-sector general equilibrium framework with...
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Tariff Jumping Foreign Investment and Capital Taxation
Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Dehejia, Vivek H. - 2021
This paper reconsiders the welfare effects of; tariff jumping; direct investment if mobile capital is subjected to taxation. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, the receiving country may in this case gain from the incremental inflow of capital, as this diverts tax revenues from the rest of...
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …
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Innovation, trade, and finance
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2011
may be positive or negative, depending on foreign countries' trade position. -- innovation ; financial development ; R …
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Innovation, Trade, and Finance
Egger, Peter H. - 2013
This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...
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Market-dependent production set
Egbert, Henrik; Naqvi, Nadeem - 2011
theory, exogenous changes in technology or primary-factor supplies alter equilibrium prices; however, government …
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Price Equalization, Trade Flows, and Barriers to Trade
Mutreja, Piyusha - 2014
In this paper we show that price equalization does not imply zero barriers to trade. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of trade. We demonstrate this first theoretically in a simple two-country model and then...
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
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Trade Imbalances, International Investment, and a Limitation of Lerner's Symmetry Theorem
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2005
This paper sounds a caution to international trade economists, demonstrating that the equilibrium trade imbalances implied by most models of international investment disturb the symmetry between import tariffs and export taxes found by Lerner (1936). When trade is unbalanced, Lerner's...
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Evolution of standards and innovation
Aoki, Reiko; Arai, Yasuhiro - 2014
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