Cette etude analyse le lien entre la disparite regionale du chomage et la politique migratoire suisse a l'aide de la courbe de Beveridge (ou U-V). Cette derniere a ete largement utilisee par d'autres auteurs pour etudier l'effet du chomage de longue duree et les mismatchs notamment. Notre...

The aim of this research is to analyse the wage differentials between various groups of immigrants and the Swiss workers.

Cette etude analyse le lien entre la disparite regionale du chomage et la politique migratoire suisse a l'aide de la courbe de Beveridge (ou U-V). Cette derniere a ete largement utilisee par d'autres auteurs pour etudier l'effet du chomage de longue duree et les mismatchs notamment. Notre...

We conduct an empirical investigation of the pricing and economic sources of commonality in liquidity in the U.S. REIT market. Taking advantage of the specific characteristics of REITs, we analyze three types of commonality in liquidity: within-asset commonality, cross-asset commonality (with...

This paper provides evidence that the reduction in applied most-favored nation (MFN) tariffs resulting from a decrease in preferential tariffs is restricted to (or significantly larger in) high-tariff members of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). This heterogeneous impact is observed only...

This paper combines various data sources on value added and GDP for Switzerland in order to construct long-¬â€term series from 1851 to 2008. I provide an extensive discussion of deflation methods and show that the recent update of the Swiss GDP per capita series in the Maddison database...

This paper evaluates the influence of urban density on the quality of the match between workers' field of education and their first occupation. Using survey data on young individuals that entered the French labor market in 2004, I propose an original measure of skill matching and find that the...

A rationale for cooperation in trade negotiations is the internalization of terms-of-trade externalities. With the help of a simple theoretical framework we show that the textbook prediction that non-cooperative tariffs are positively correlated to the importer’s market power is reversed when...

This paper develops a Cournot duopoly in which a domestic firm competes with a technologically more advanced foreign-owned firm on the home market.

Does a better cultural milieu make a city more livable for residents and improve its business environment for firms? I compute a measure of cultural specialization for 346 U.S. metropolitan areas and ask if differences in cultural environment capitalize into housing price and wage differentials....