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. We prove that with extreme-skill complementarity, the skill distribution has fatter tails in large cities; with top …-skill complementarity, there is first-order stochastic dominance. Using the model to back out skills from wage and housing price data, we … consistent with extreme-skill complementarity: the productivity of high skilled workers and of the providers of low skilled …
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This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...
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production sectors hit capacity limits? Here I exploit the complementarity approach to general equilibrium, focusing on modeling … number of firms that can enter in each firm type. Formulated as a non-linear complementarity problem, we can solve for the …
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The economic effects of environmental taxes depend on the market structure. Under imperfect competition with free entry and exit, environmental taxes have an impact on economies of scale by changing the number and size of firms. Whether economies of scale rise or fall in a particular industry...
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I explore the interactions between comparative, competitive and absolute advantage in a two-country model of oligopoly in general equilibrium. Comparative advantage always determines the direction of trade, but both competitive and absolute advantage affect resource allocation, trade patterns...
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